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

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

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

Voltaire

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Huxley, Aldous

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Greene, Graham

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.