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

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

Kant, Immanuel

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Paul, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Hands, Terry

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scott Adams

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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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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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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

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

Mencken, H. 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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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 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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

George Bernard Shaw

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