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

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

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

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

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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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 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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Sallust

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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

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

Scott Adams