Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Morality

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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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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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 woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 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 moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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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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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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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, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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.