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

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

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

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Seneca

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Froude, James A.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John