Quotes about Morality

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The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I f — C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive wor — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own hea — Dalai Lama XIV, The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the ap — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such a — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so — Ashly Lorenzana
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which — John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. — Mark Twain, The Diary of Adam and Eve
The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was goi — Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had al — Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me. — Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a pro — H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law. — Aristotle
Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right fr — James Crumley