Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Bevan, Aneurin

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Sallust

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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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 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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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Scott Adams

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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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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

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Voltaire

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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 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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rand, Ayn