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

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

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

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

Hands, Terry

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Scott Adams

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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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 is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 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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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