Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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 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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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 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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Scott Adams

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

Froude, James A.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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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