Motivational Quotes

Morality

We become moral when we are unhappy.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lippmann, Walter

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Froude, James A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Kraus, Karl

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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 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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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel