Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Sallust

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

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

Ferber, Edna

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

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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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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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Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.