Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Locke, John

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

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

Locke, John

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

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

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Paul, Jean

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Hands, Terry

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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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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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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 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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Denis Diderot

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