Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Morality

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Sica, Vittorio De

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sallust

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Shawcross, Lord

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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Shuman, Rick