Motivational Quotes

Morality

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Scott Adams

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.

Sharpe, Cecil J.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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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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