Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sallust

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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