Motivational Quotes

Morality

We moralize among ruins.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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 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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Mann, Horace

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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 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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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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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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Shuman, Rick