Motivational Quotes

Morality

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Scott Adams

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Denis Diderot

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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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 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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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