Motivational Quotes

Morality

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

- Young

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

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

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

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Greene, Graham

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Froude, James A.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Shuman, Rick

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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 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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Sallust

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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