Motivational Quotes

Morality

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Morality

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Anouilh, Jean

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Crowley, Aleister

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Lao-Tzu

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Bataille, Georges

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G. K. Chesterton

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Kant, Immanuel

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

James A. Forude

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Sontag, Susan

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Jonathan Haidt

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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.

Bertrand Russell

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Russell, Bertrand

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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Shawcross, Lord

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.