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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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 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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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 become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Hazlitt, William

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Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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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

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Froude, James A.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Scott Adams