Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Anouilh, Jean

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

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

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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Hands, Terry

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Greene, Graham

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Denis Diderot

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

Scott Adams

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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.