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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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.

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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Feoude

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sallust

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

Scott Adams

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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 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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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 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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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