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

Shawcross, Lord

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Feoude

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Froude, James A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Shuman, Rick

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'Wrong'is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scott Adams

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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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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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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Dane, Frank