Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Scott Adams

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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 the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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

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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 purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Sallust

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Froude, James A.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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