Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring constructive mind.

Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree On what is pure morality.

There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.

I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.