Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Voltaire

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

Dane, Frank

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

Huxley, Aldous

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

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

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

Hume, Basil

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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 the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Lowell, James Russell

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Scott Adams

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sallust

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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