Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Sallust

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dane, Frank

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

Scott Adams

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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Froude, James A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Voltaire

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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.