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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

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

Dane, Frank

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Froude, James A.

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Scott Adams

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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 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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Shuman, Rick

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Shawcross, Lord

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Hazlitt, William

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Sallust

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

Denis Diderot