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| All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God | | Voltaire | |
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| Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow | | Karl Kraus | |
| For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue | | Friedrich von Schiller | |
| His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be | | Oscar Wilde | |
| I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. | | W. C. Fields | |
| Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity | | Edmund Burke | |
| Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. | | Aristotle | |
| Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. | | Karl Kraus | |
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| Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. | | Oscar Wilde | |
