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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hands, Terry

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Froude, James A.

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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