Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Feoude

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

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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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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sallust

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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

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shuman, Rick

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Denis Diderot

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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 the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard