Morals Quotes

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“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne

Richard Dawkins
“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

Leo Tolstoy
“How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Patti Smith
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

Eliezer Yudkowsky
“There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.

But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

W.E.B. Du Bois

Shannon L. Alder
“Dear Child,



Your Guardian Angel”
Shannon L. Alder


Charles Bukowski
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone.”
Charles Bukowski, Women

E.A. Bucchianeri
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

Stephen R. Lawhead
“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”
Stephen R. Lawhead, Arthur

Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead

Friedrich Nietzsche
“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.”
Roy T. Bennett

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really”
Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

Rachel Caine
“Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.”
Rachel Caine, Total Eclipse

Donita K. Paul
“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”
Donita K. Paul, DragonKnight

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Kenzaburō Ōe
“Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.”
Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

Henry Miller
Henry Miller, The Time of the Assassins: a Study of Rimbaud

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