Quotes about morality
501 quotes from 241 people
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Hesiod776–700 BCWorks and Days (c. 700 BC)The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“Credo” (1991)A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations, Book IX, 5
Margaret Atwoodborn 1939The Progressive interview (2010)
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Boer War (1902)
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Social Statics (1851), Part I, Ch. 2: The Evanescence of Evil, § 1
Norman Mailer1923–2007“Hip, Hell, and the Navigator” in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
Reinhold Niebuhr1892–1971Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), p.26
Horace Mann1796–1859A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850), pp. 37–38
Hannah Arendt1906–1975The Life of the Mind (1978), “Thinking”
Jordan Petersonborn 1962“Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death”
William Golding1911–1993Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 12: The Cry of the Hunters
Cormac McCarthy1933–2023The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, “Hollywood’s Favorite Cowboy” by John Jurgensen
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, 25 May 2000
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)