Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Scott Adams

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

Froude, James A.

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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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 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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Thoreau, Henry David