Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Scott Adams

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Kraus, Karl

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Huxley, Aldous

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Paul, Jean

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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

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

Sallust

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel