Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Morality

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

Shuman, Rick

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Froude, James A.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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.