Quotes About Morality

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Adultery is the injury of nature.