Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shuman, Rick

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

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

Feoude

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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 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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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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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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Weil, Simone

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Paul, Jean

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Sallust

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

Denis Diderot

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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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 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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg