Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

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

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Feoude

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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 is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Denis Diderot