Quotes about morality
501 quotes from 241 people
The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945“After Ten Years” (Christmas 1942), in Letters and Papers from Prison- Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 142
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Omar Bradley1893–1981Armistice Day speech (10 November 1948, in Boston, MA), published in Omar Bradley’s Collected Writings, Volume 1 (1967: 589)Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.
Joseph Brodsky1940–1996“A Commencement Address” (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles.
John Buchan1875–1940“A University’s Bequest to Youth” (10 October 1936)I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
