Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Morality

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

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Locke, John

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

Voltaire

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Denis Diderot

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

Scott Adams

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

Sallust

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Froude, James A.

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

Young, Andrew

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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas