Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.

Coles, Robert

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

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

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

Sallust

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Denis Diderot

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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.