Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. Friedrich Nietzsche
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. Bertrand Russell
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right. Isaac Asimov
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde
Morality is a private and costly luxury. Henry Brooks Adams
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. W E Gladstone
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. Thomas Hardy
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. Immanuel Kant
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
I wouldn’t make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It’s much overrated. Dean Rusk
Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Ayn Rand
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. Emma Goldman
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. Lord Acton
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. Georges Bataille
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Frank Herbert
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. Lincoln Steffens
Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other. James Fitzjames Stephen
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. Walter Lippmann
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. Emile Durkheim
The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from family life where people treat one another with respect, consideration, and love. Neil Kurshan
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. Roy Hattersley
We become moral when we are unhappy. Marcel Proust
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. Alexis de Tocqueville
Morals are private. Decency is public. Rita Mae Brown
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. Noam Chomsky