Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Scott Adams

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Froude, James A.

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Seneca

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

Shawcross, Lord

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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 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 a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sallust