Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Morality

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

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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

Feoude

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Scott Adams

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sallust

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister