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

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Hands, Terry

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

Sila-Prabhrita

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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

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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

13.

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.

Didion, Joan

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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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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Warshow, Robert

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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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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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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Weil, Simone

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Neeson, Liam

27.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.

Sharpe, Cecil J.

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

Sallust

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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Froude, James A.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Buchanan, Patrick