#morality

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"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."

"Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."

"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

"There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"

"Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral."

"A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed."

"All religions are true but none are literal."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about."

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

"There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied."

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

"Ethics is a dream."

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

"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 I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."