Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Froude, James A.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Greene, Graham

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

Scott Adams

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sallust

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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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