40 moral phrases to understand the importance of this set of rules

Everything has a moral: just find it.

Lewis Carroll

Morality is nothing more than an interpretation – or more exactly a false interpretation – of certain phenomena.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Immorality is the morals of those who are better off than we are.

Henry Louis Mencken

To act with morals is to have character. It’s being able to sleep peacefully at night knowing you’re doing the right thing.

Juan O’Keeffe

Moral indignation is nothing more than envy with a halo.

Herbert George Wells

The moral authority of rulers is, without a doubt, the beginning of everything.

Dalmo Dalari

Anything can be done, except making others suffer: this is my moral.

Gustave Flaubert

True morality mocks morality.

Blaise Pascal

Morality is nothing more than the regulation of selfishness.

Jeremy Bentham

Morality, properly speaking, is not the doctrine that teaches us how to be happy, but how we should make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

The arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends for justice.

Martin Luther King

The moral defeat inflicted is more serious than the material disaster.

Never let your moral sense stop you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov

Let us ask ourselves who is properly ‘bad’, in the sense of the morality of resentment. The answer, strictly speaking: precisely the ‘good’ of the other morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every free action has two causes that concur to produce it: a moral one, which is the will that determines the act; the other physical, which is the power that executes it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is truly immoral is to have given up on yourself.

Clarice Lispector

Morality is what makes a person feel good; immoral is what makes a person feel bad.

Ernest Hemingway

The morality of the people discriminates between force and the expressions of force, as if behind the strong there was an indifferent substrate that was free to express force or not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no moral books and immoral books. There are well-written books and poorly written books, that’s all.

Oscar Wild

When our moral evil is known to us, it is necessary that we know how to heal our soul as we heal our arm or leg.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We call those whose spirit is different from ours dangerous and those who do not have our morals immoral.

Anatole France

In morals and in art, saying is nothing, doing is everything.

Ernest Renan

I always prefer a more lenient morality, which is within everyone’s reach, to a very high morality, which few can attain.

Paolo Mantegazza

With the help of customary morality and the social straitjacket, man was really made trustworthy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is what allows us to be true to ourselves.

Jeanne Moreau

Morality consists in making sympathetic instincts prevail over selfish impulses.

Auguste Comte

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy is opposed to naivety.

Emmanuel Levinas

Moral laws are the rules of a game in which everyone cheats, and this since the world is world.

Jean Cocteau

Protecting the environment is an ethical and moral issue.

Daniel Coelho

Morality is often the passport to backbiting.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Disinterested morality, for morality alone, is mysticism, it is neither natural nor normal.

Fernando Pessoa

The worm recoils when stepped on. This indicates wisdom. That way it reduces the chance of being stepped on again. In the language of morals: humility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

First comes the stomach, then the morals.

Bertold Brecht

Morality consists of a certain dose of courtesy to appear good.

Agustina Bessa-Luís

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Jean-Arthur Rimbaud

Two things that fill my soul with growing admiration and respect, the more intensely and often the thought of it is occupied: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant