Motivational Quotes

Morality

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

- Young

Best Quotes about Morality

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

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

Hands, Terry

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

Scott Adams

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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