Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Sallust

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

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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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 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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Diderot, Denis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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