Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Greene, Graham

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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France, Anatole

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Denis Diderot

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.