Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Voltaire

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Sallust

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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 is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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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 herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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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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Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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

Denis Diderot

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Scott Adams

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Froude, James A.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg