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

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.

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

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Wilde, Oscar

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Froude, James A.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.