Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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 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.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Lowell, James Russell

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

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.

12.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

George Bernard Shaw

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Froude, James A.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

33.

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

Sallust

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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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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Warshow, Robert

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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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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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister