Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Young, Andrew

Best Quotes about Morality

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Scott Adams

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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 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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Denis Diderot

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Froude, James A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules