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Quotes About Morals

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Mark Twain



Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer



The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi



So far, 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, Death in the Afternoon



Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
Laurence Sterne



Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the
history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let
selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt



Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and
reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up,
apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still
small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion



It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take
seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been
charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be
based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of
reward after death.
Albert Einstein


Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.
Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version



My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against
dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a 'believer' in orthodox religion, but had
strong questions which were encouraged at Harvard. In Germany I became a freethinker and when I
came to teach at an orthodox Methodist Negro school I was soon regarded with suspicion, especially
when I refused to lead the students in public prayer. When I became head of a department at Atlanta,
the engagement was held up because again I balked at leading in prayer. I refused to teach Sunday
school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any
church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as
an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war. I
think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement
of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools.
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the
Last Decade of Its First Century



How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace



I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
Patti Smith, Just Kids



Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if
they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Margaret Mead



Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth
- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop



To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without
meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word
stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.
Stephen R. Lawhead, Arthur



Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to
someone else. You bear that burden, so they dont have to, in a situation where telling them will
change nothing.
Cassandra Clare



The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral
foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the
universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")
Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr.



If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring
civilised morality to savage morality.
C.S. Lewis



A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
Friedrich Nietzsche



The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care
about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just
have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a
result.
Louis Sachar



Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do
anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.
Rachel Caine, Total Eclipse



If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the
quality of its music will furnish the answer.
Confucius



Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the
creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras



You Chose

You chose.
You chose.
You chose.

You chose to give away your love.
You chose to have a broken heart.
You chose to give up.
You chose to hang on.

You chose to react.
You chose to feel insecure.
You chose to feel anger.
You chose to fight back.
You chose to have hope.

You chose to be nave.
You chose to ignore your intuition.
You chose to ignore advice.
You chose to look the other way.
You chose to not listen.
You chose to be stuck in the past.

You chose your perspective.
You chose to blame.
You chose to be right.
You chose your pride.
You chose your games.
You chose your ego.
You chose your paranoia.
You chose to compete.
You chose your enemies.
You chose your consequences.

You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.

However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the
world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now
screaming:

Choose to let go.
Choose dignity.
Choose to forgive yourself.
Choose to forgive others.
Choose to see your value.
Choose to show the world youre not a victim.
Choose to make us proud.
Shannon L. Alder
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Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is
wrong.
John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
tags: ethics, government, morals
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Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really
Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People
tags: men-and-women, morals
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I
hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of
humankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
tags: animals, humankind, inspiration, morals, protection
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Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
Paul Newman
tags: 2002, charlie-rose, morals, sleep
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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality
is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
C.S. Lewis
tags: inspirational, morals, self-improvement
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Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are
is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen
wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-
embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and
loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal
transformation and victory over internal and external evils.
John Granger, The Deathly Hallows Lectures: The Hogwarts Professor Explains the Final Harry
Potter Adventure