Quotes About Morality

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.