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

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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

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

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

Ferber, Edna

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

11.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Froude, James A.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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