Motivational Quotes

Morality

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Best Quotes about Morality

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

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Feoude

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

Voltaire

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Denis Diderot

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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 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

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shuman, Rick

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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.