Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Morality

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Kraus, Karl

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.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Feoude

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Greene, Graham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hazlitt, William