Motivational Quotes

Morality

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

Scott Adams

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Froude, James A.

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

Hands, Terry

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Sallust

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 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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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'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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.