Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Feoude

Best Quotes about Morality

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Bataille, Georges

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

Denis Diderot

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

Kant, Immanuel

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Greene, Graham

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hazlitt, William

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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.