(885 quotes found)
“Morality is primarily a means of preserving the community and saving it from destruction. Next it is a means of maintaining the community on a certain plane and in a certain degree of benevolence.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When the sun comes up, I have morals again.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.”
Emily Brown
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality”
Oscar Wilde
“What is moral is what you feel good after.”
Ernest Hemingway
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
Herbert Spencer
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.”
Bertrand Russell