Motivational Quotes

Morality

We become moral when we are unhappy.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

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

Lawrence, D. H.

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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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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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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Greene, Graham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sallust

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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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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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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