Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Scott Adams

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sallust

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Denis Diderot

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Greene, Graham

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister