Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Greene, Graham

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Young, Andrew

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Denis Diderot

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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 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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scott Adams

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Voltaire

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.