Motivational Quotes

Morality

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

- Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Greene, Graham

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Scott Adams

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Voltaire

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Sallust

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Ferber, Edna

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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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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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin