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Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it. Can’t be done.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
We are told by moralists with the plainest faces that immorality will spoil our looks.
Grub first, then morality.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that ninety – nine percent of them are wrong.
The nation’s morals are like its teeth; the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
The morality which is divorced from godliness, however specious and captivating to the eye, is superficial and deceptive. The only morality that is clear in its source, pure in its precepts, and efficacious in its influence, is the morality of the gospel. All else is, at best, but idolatry the worship of something of man’s own creation; and that imperfect and feeble, like himself, and wholly insufficient to give him support and strength.
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.
Some would divorce morality from religion; but religion is the root without which morality would die.
They talk of morals, O, thou bleeding lamb! The grand morality is love to thee!.
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.
The Christian religion is the only one that puts morality on its proper, and the right basis, viz: the fear and love of God.
In the long run, morals without religion, will wither and die like seed sown upon stony ground, or among thorns.
The highest morality, if not inspired and vitalized by religion, is but as the marble statue, or the silent corpse, to the living and perfect man.
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
We are told by moralists with the plainest faces that immorality will spoil our looks.
Grub first, then morality.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene (b.1904) British novelist.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that ninety – nine percent of them are wrong.
H.L.Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.
The nation’s morals are like its teeth; the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.
About morals, 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 (1899-1961) American author.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire.
The morality which is divorced from godliness, however specious and captivating to the eye, is superficial and deceptive. The only morality that is clear in its source, pure in its precepts, and efficacious in its influence, is the morality of the gospel. All else is, at best, but idolatry the worship of something of man’s own creation; and that imperfect and feeble, like himself, and wholly insufficient to give him support and strength.
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.
Tryon Edwards.
Some would divorce morality from religion; but religion is the root without which morality would die.
C.A.Bartol.
They talk of morals, O, thou bleeding lamb! The grand morality is love to thee!.
Young.
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.
Longfellow
The Christian religion is the only one that puts morality on its proper, and the right basis, viz: the fear and love of God.
Johnson.
In the long run, morals without religion, will wither and die like seed sown upon stony ground, or among thorns.
The highest morality, if not inspired and vitalized by religion, is but as the marble statue, or the silent corpse, to the living and perfect man.
S.I.Prime.
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
Horace Bushnell.
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