Motivational Quotes

Morality

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.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Hume, Basil

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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 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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Paul, Jean

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

Denis Diderot

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Diderot, Denis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Froude, James A.

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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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'Wrong'is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scott Adams

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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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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Greene, Graham