Motivational Quotes

Morality

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.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Feoude

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

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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

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

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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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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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Denis Diderot

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Froude, James A.

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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 become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Scott Adams

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

Robert Louis Stevenson