Motivational Quotes

Morality

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Morality

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Sallust

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

Froude, James A.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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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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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 greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Diderot, Denis

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