Motivational Quotes

Morality

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Morality

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Ferber, Edna

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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

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

Shuman, Rick

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Paul, Jean

24.

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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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Lowell, James 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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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Denis Diderot

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg