Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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

Froude, James A.

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Lowell, James 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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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 moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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