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

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

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Hume, Basil

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

Shuman, Rick

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lippmann, Walter

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Froude, James A.

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

Sallust

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.