Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Sallust

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

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

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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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

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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Froude, James A.

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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