Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Greene, Graham

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

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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