Motivational Quotes

Morality

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

- Shuman, Rick

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Greene, Graham

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Froude, James A.

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

Scott Adams

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Denis Diderot

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Didion, Joan

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

34.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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 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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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 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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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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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