Motivational Quotes

Morality

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Morality

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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

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

Locke, John

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Colton, Charles Caleb