Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Morality

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shuman, Rick

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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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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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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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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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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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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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 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 system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Denis Diderot

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