Motivational Quotes

Morality

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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Best Quotes about Morality

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.