Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

Shuman, Rick

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

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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Froude, James A.

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

Denis Diderot

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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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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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 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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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