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

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

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

Sallust

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Denis Diderot

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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Selden, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Scott Adams

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Froude, James A.

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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.