Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Locke, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Sallust

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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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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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Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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

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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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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 become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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