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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Hume, Basil

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Denis Diderot

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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 such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Sallust

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greene, Graham

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.