Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Morality

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scott Adams

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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

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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 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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Denis Diderot

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Young, Andrew

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Dane, Frank

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

Sallust