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

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

Lowell, James Russell

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lippmann, Walter

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Sallust

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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'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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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 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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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

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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Denis Diderot

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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