Motivational Quotes

Morality

We moralize among ruins.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Morality

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

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

James A. Forude

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Denis Diderot

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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