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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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

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

Voltaire

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Sallust

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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Paul, Jean

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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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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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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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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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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