Morality

(290 votes)   -The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

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(257 votes)   Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Robert Burns

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(221 votes)   Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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(201 votes)   While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
1910-1989, British Philosopher

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(191 votes)   Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(151 votes)   Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Horace Mann
1796-1859, American Educator

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(151 votes)   Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Robert Warshow

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(149 votes)   It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

Emma Goldman
1869-1940, American Anarchist

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(143 votes)   When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(131 votes)   There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us strably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

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(112 votes)   Whoever supermoralizes unmoralizes.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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(106 votes)   The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James A. Froude
1818-1894, British Historian

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(105 votes)   There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson
1912-1981, British Writer

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(94 votes)   God has given us two hands -- one to receive with, and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. Billy Graham, evangelist

Billy Graham

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(87 votes)   ...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the wrong beliefs.

F.A. Hayek

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