Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Greene, Graham

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

11.

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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Sallust

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

Scott Adams

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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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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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Froude, James A.

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