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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bevan, Aneurin

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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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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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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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

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Froude, James A.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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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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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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Scott Adams

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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 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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Paul, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.