Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Huxley, Aldous

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Sallust

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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 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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Denis Diderot

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.