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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Voltaire

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Greene, Graham

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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Warshow, Robert

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Huxley, Aldous

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Sallust

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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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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Froude, James A.

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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

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Scott Adams

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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

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

Shuman, Rick