Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mann, Horace

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

11.

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

Locke, John

12.

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.

13.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

14.

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

15.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

16.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

17.

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

18.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

20.

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

Denis Diderot

21.

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

22.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

23.

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

Froude, James A.

24.

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

Scott Adams

25.

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

Dane, Frank

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

30.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Shawcross, Lord

33.

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

34.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

35.

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

36.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

37.

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

Lippmann, Walter

38.

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

39.

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

Paul, Jean

40.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

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

42.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Greene, Graham

43.

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

44.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

45.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Anouilh, Jean

46.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

47.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.