Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Ferber, Edna

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Sallust

It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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

Greene, Graham

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Jonathan Haidt

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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

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

Lowell, James 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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Scott Adams

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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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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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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 herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Denis Diderot

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Froude, James A.

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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