Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lippmann, Walter

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Scott Adams

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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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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