Motivational Quotes

Morality

The higher the building the lower the morals.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Young, Andrew

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Sallust

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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 moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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