Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Shuman, Rick

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Young, Andrew

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

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Scott Adams

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Shawcross, Lord

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Froude, James A.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Voltaire

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.