Motivational Quotes

Morality

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Morality

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.

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

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

Sallust

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

Wilde, Oscar

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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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 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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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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

Hazlitt, William