Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

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Best Quotes about Morality

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

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Rand, Ayn

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Didion, Joan

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Voltaire

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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