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

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

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

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.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hume, Basil

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

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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Shuman, Rick

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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 nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Sallust

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Scott Adams

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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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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

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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane