Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Froude, James A.

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

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

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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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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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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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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 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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Denis Diderot

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