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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Ferber, Edna

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Sallust

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister