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

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Scott Adams

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John