Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

Goldman, Emma

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Thoreau, Henry David

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Denis Diderot

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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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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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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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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.

Coles, Robert

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Sallust

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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