Motivational Quotes

Morality

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

- Young, Andrew

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Mencken, H. L.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

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

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

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Sallust

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

Paul, Jean

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Shuman, Rick

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Voltaire

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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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 may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.