Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Paul, Jean

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Mencken, H. L.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Scott Adams

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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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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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 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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Denis Diderot

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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