Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Hume, Basil

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Mann, Horace

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Young, Andrew

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

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

Sallust

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

Paul, Jean

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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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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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Seneca

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Greene, Graham

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.