Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Locke, John

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

Denis Diderot

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

Paul, Jean

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

Dane, Frank

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.

Coles, Robert

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Scott Adams

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

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rand, Ayn

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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Warshow, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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