Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Morality

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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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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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

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scott Adams

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde