Quotes on morality
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
McLaughlin, Mignon
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Whitehead, Alfred North
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
Powys, Llewelyn
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Greene, Henry Graham
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Hardy, Thomas
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
Montaigne, Michel de
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
Fischer, Martin H.
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Ellis, Havelock
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Russell, Bertrand
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Adams, Henry