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

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.

 —Don Herold

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

 —Oscar Wilde

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on out of all that into something beyond.  One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Everyone there is filled full with what we should call goodness, as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

—C.S. Lewis

Morality is contraband in war.

 —Mohandas Gandhi

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.

 —Samuel P. Ginder

The only inherent sin in society is hurting others unnecessarily. Hurting yourself is not sinful –just dumb.

 —Robert Heinlein

It is noble to be good. It is nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble.

 —Mark Twain

Be not hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men.

 —Samuel Johnson

Politics have no relation to morals.

 —Niccolo Machiavelli

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

 —H.G. Wells

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

 —Winston Churchill