Motivational Quotes

Morality

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

- Hands, Terry

Best Quotes about Morality

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

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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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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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

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Froude, James A.

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Sallust

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

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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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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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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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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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.