Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Sallust

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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

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

Young, Andrew

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

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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 codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar