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

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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 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

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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 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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Froude, James A.

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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 purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Ferber, Edna

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