Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Denis Diderot

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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 herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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 who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

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

Greene, Graham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard