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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lawrence, D. H.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Scott Adams

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Froude, James A.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

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

Sallust

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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.

Coles, Robert

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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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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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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.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.