Quotes about morality
501 quotes from 241 people
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter IV, aphorism 153, tr. Helen ZimmernIn context- Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Gay Science (1882), Sec. 116
I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Part II, Chapter 13- Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), Essay 1, Section 10 (tr. Walter Kaufmann)
The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809First Principles of Government (1795)Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 537–539
Jordan Petersonborn 1962“Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death”The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato429–349 BCAttributed to Plato on the letterhead of the Constitution Party. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations compiled by The Library of Congress. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2010.No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato429–349 BCApology, 41c–eThe greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, TheatetusI was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
