Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Feoude

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Denis Diderot

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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 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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Shuman, Rick

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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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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 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