Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about 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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Denis Diderot

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Scott Adams

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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 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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

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

Sallust