Moral Quotes

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.