Motivational Quotes

Morality

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Sallust

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

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Scott Adams

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

32.

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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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 a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Greene, Graham

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

Froude, James A.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David