Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Warshow, Robert

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Feoude

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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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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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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Paul, Jean

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

Froude, James A.

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb