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

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

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

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 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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sallust

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

Paul, Jean

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Froude, James A.

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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 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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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 codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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

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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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

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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 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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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