Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about 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

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.

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

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Scott Adams

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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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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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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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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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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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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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Hands, Terry

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

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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 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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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