Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Froude, James A.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Scott Adams

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

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

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

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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Sallust

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Andrew

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Denis Diderot

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

Voltaire