Best Quotes and speeches on Morality
- Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
― Henry David Thoreau - All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
― Voltaire - Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
― Mark Twain - An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
― George Bernard Shaw - Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
― John Wooden - But if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it is all I have.
― John Powell - Compassion is the basis of all morality.
― Arthur Schopenhauer - Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.
― 1 Corinthians 15:33 - Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
― Henry David Thoreau - Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.
― Richard Dawkins - Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
― Albert Schweitzer - Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
― Ambrosius Macrobius - Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
― Theodore Roosevelt - History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
― James A. Forude - I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
― Robert F. Kennedy - I don’t believe in morality in architecture.
― Michael Graves - I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
― Thomas Jefferson - I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.
― Jennifer Granholm - I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
― G. K. Chesterton - If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
― Robert Louis Stevenson
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