Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

George Bernard Shaw

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Hazlitt, William

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Scott Adams

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Shuman, Rick