Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

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.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.