Sigmund Freud Quotes

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.