Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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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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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Lao-Tzu

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Locke, 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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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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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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