Quotes About Morality

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Noël Coward

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

Philip Pullman

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain