Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Voltaire

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Paul, Jean

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Froude, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Dane, Frank

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.