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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Scott Adams

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Sallust

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

Shuman, Rick

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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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