Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Scott Adams

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Greene, Graham

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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 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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Denis Diderot

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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Froude, James A.

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Paul, Jean

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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