Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Hazlitt, William

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Shuman, Rick

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

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Denis Diderot

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Scott Adams

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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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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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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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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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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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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.