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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

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

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

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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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Scott Adams

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young