People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.
—Shannon L. Alder
At the boy's level, hero worship gravitates toward the doer of spectacular deeds; on the average adult level, toward the wielder of power; and in the eyes of a more critical judgment, toward idealism and moral qualities.
—Dixon Wecter
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23.1: "If your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.
—Donald Morgan
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
—Margaret Halsey
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
—Kin Hubbard
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
—Voltaire
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
—Woody Allen
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
—Albert Schweitzer
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
—Bertrand Russell
We have, in fact, 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
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
—G. K. Chesterton