Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Sallust

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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

Hands, Terry

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

Kant, Immanuel

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Paul, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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 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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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Froude, James A.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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 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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Sallust

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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