Motivational Quotes

Morality

We become moral when we are unhappy.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Hands, Terry

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Scott Adams

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

Young, Andrew

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It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Voltaire

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sallust

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hume, Basil