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After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.
— Mason Cooley
What, seen in the perspective of life, is the significance of morality?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
— Henry David Thoreau
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
— Peter Marshall
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality
— Sunday Adelaja
I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.
— Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Do what is right for the right reasons.
— L.M. Fields
To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What good literature can do and does do - far greater than any importation of morality - is touch the human soul.
— Karen Swallow Prior
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
— H.L. Mencken
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
— Susan Sontag
Do unto others' is a boomerang. Whatever you decide to throw out there will return to you. If you do not like what comes back - change your output.
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
— George Bernard Shaw
Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.
— Rebecca Goldstein
What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
— Albert Einstein
Skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.
— Lyndon Johnson
It's a sin only if it harms you
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves
— Jose Saramago
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
— George William Russell
From what I can tell, morality is a word. Nothing more. There're the things people do when others are watching and the things we do when they aren't.
— Stephanie Kuehn
What is robbing a bank compared to founding one?
— Bertolt Brecht
What on earth is the current morality, except in its literal sense - the morality that is always running away?
— G.K. Chesterton
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
— Robert A. Heinlein
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
— Derek Freeman
Do what is right and be prepared to pay the price.
— Christopher Taylor
Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.
— Criss Jami
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
— H.L. Mencken
What we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
— Karl Jaspers
Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear
what you KNOW! — Faith Brashear
what you KNOW! — Faith Brashear
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.
— H.L. Mencken
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.
— Osamu Dazai
What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.
— Ronald Dworkin
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
— Henry David Thoreau
We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.
— Dennis Prager
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
— Mark Twain
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
— Edward O. Wilson
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
— George McGovern
If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
— Philip K. Dick
The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.
— Brandon Sanderson
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.
— Shannon L. Alder
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally.
— Marquis De Sade
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
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
— Thomas Huxley
Morality is for everyone and that is what
— Alexander McCall Smith