Motivational Quotes

Morality

The end never really justifies the meanness.

- Hulse, E. Duane

Best Quotes about Morality

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

Shawcross, Lord

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

Hume, Basil

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Young, Andrew

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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