Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Feoude

Best Quotes about Morality

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Lowell, James Russell

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

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

Dane, Frank

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

10.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

11.

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

15.

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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Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

17.

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

Hume, Basil

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

Denis Diderot

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Anouilh, Jean

37.

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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Sallust

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar