Quotes About Morality

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Hell, they says, is paved with good intentions.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Morality can go to its father the devil.