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Morality is the best of all
devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche, The
Antichrist
Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry B. Adams, The
Education of Henry Adams
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are
designed to keep us at work. — Llewelyn Powys
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. — Thomas Hardy, Jude
the Obscure, 1875
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature,
proceed from custom. — Michel de Montaigne, translated
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. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. — Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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. —
Bertrand Russell
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
— Havelock Ellis
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of
nothing but ill will and envy. — Goethe
It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are
sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. —
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by
Two Brothers, 1827
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of
curiosity has withered. — Graham Greene
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete
and death by the streptococcus? — Martin H. Fischer
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.
— Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941
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Quotations about Morality