Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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'Wrong'is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scott Adams

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

Hands, Terry

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Sallust

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Froude, James A.

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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

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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, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.