Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Sallust

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

Hands, Terry

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

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Greene, Graham

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Scott Adams

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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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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 is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Froude, James A.

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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas