Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

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 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

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

Paul, Jean

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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

Ferber, Edna

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

Bevan, Aneurin

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Denis Diderot

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Scott Adams

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Froude, James A.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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We moralize among ruins.