Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Shawcross, Lord

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Froude, James A.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Shuman, Rick

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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