Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Voltaire

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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

Kraus, Karl

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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 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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Scott Adams

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Sallust