Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Greene, Graham

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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 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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl