Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

James A. Forude

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Paul, Jean

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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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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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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 is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard