Morality - Quotes

A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves. - Dave Galanter

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.- Henry Ward Beecher

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. - Ernest Hemingway

Almost every Englishman imagines he is moral because he objects to immorality – in others. - Charles Edward Jerningham

Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Custom alone regulates morals. - Anatole France

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone? - Charles Caleb Colton

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

It's easy enough to preach morality on a full belly. - Erwin Sylvanus

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. - Steven Pinker

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees. - Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in. It can be difficult and even frightening to go against the grain, whether it’s a personal disagreement with a friend, partner, or family member or a professional decision that affects co-workers and colleagues. - Tabatha Coffey

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. - Ayn Rand

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. - Ayn Rand

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading. - Norman MacDonald

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We can't go far in morality before realizing that right is a relative thing and that those who disagree with us may be striving for it as earnestly as we are ourselves. It is the spirit that counts. - John Daniel Barry

Without freedom there can be no morality. - Carl Jung