Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

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 people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

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

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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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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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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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 that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Froude, James A.

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sallust

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

Scott Adams

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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