Motivational Quotes

Morality

The end never really justifies the meanness.

- Hulse, E. Duane

Best Quotes about Morality

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

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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 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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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 is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Shawcross, Lord

24.

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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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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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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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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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