Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Scott Adams

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

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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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Denis Diderot

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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

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister