Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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

Scott Adams

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

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

Hands, Terry

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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 new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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

Sallust

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Denis Diderot

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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