Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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

Scott Adams

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Froude, James A.

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil