Motivational Quotes

Morality

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Feoude

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

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

Froude, James A.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Greene, Graham

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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.

Weil, Simone

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Scott Adams

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Sica, Vittorio De