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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Froude, James A.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

Shuman, Rick

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rand, Ayn

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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.