<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Morality - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63654]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43131]]></link><description><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43132]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, 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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealist: a cynic in the making. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealist: a cynic in the making.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end never really justifies the meanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43116]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages,  And two in fifty scarce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages,  And two in fifty scarce agree   On what is pure morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43105]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring constructive mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43090]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43090</guid></item></channel></rss>