Quotes on Morality

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Do not give your children moral and religious instruction unless you are quite sure they will not take it too seriously. Better be the mother of Henri Quatre and Nell Gwynne than of Robespierre and Queen Mary Tudor.

Give me a morality that equally suits the healthy and the sick, men and women, children, adults, and old people.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Integrity - When you do the right thing even though no one is watching.