Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper.

1. Money has no moral opinions.
Abraham Polonsky

2. Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever…
Christopher Hitchens

3. Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas Jefferson

4. My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
Michael Biehn

5. When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover

6. My morals are important to me.
Hunter Parrish

7. A nice life is not possible without wisdom, morality and justice.
Epicurus

8. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

9. Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov

10. About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

11. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
Iris Murdoch

12. When you have to compromise your Morals for the people around you, change the people around you
Anonymous

13. An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw

14. A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

15. Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson

16. Compassion is the basis of all morality
Arthur Schopenhauer

17. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

18. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

19. Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

20. Moral virtue manifests itself in pleasure and pain.
Aristotle

21. Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
Marian Wright Edelman

22. The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold

23. My moral in life is simple; You treat me good & I'll definitely treat you better
Anonymous

24. Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
William Slim

25. Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand

26. Morality is more important than laws, because law depends on morality.
Edmund Burke

27. Morality is doing what's right regardless of what you're told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right
Anonymous

28. Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

29. With morality, you will become crooked. With humanity, your heart will naturally beat for everything in existence
Anonymous

30. We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert Green Ingersoll

31. Moral ineptitude risks not the wrath of a diety, but the retardation of one's own inner development
Anonymous

32. There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. Leon Wieseltier

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33. Conformity is doing what everybody else is doing, regardless of what is right. Morality is doing what is right regardless of what everybody else is doing.
Evette Carter

34. Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum

35. True morality is doing what is right without the threat of divine retribution nor the possibility of divine reward.
Arthur Paliden

36. Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

37. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

38. Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand

39. Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
Herbert Spencer

40. Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right
Anonymous

41. One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. Arthur C. Clarke

42. Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi

43. Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals
Anonymous

44. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

45. Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
Christopher Hitchens

46. You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion
Anonymous

47. Integrity. I will have the moral courage to make my actions consistent with my knowledge of right and wrong
Anonymous

48. No man's religion ever survived his morals
Anonymous

49. There are some things that money cannot buy, like manners, morals, and intelligence
Anonymous

50. Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Albert Bandura

51. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

52. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

53. Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kan

54. She's a woman of character and morals and discipline. You don't find a lot of that in people in modern times.
Brenda Strong

55. Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Mark Hopkins

56. There are some things that money just can't buy. Like manners, morals and integrity
Anonymous

57. I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

58. Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds – and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
Sam Harris

59. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann

60. No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything
Anonymous

61. Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde

62. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche