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

Shuman, Rick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Scott Adams

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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 people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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