Quotes About Morality

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.