Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Anouilh, Jean

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Sallust

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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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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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hume, Basil

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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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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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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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'Wrong'is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scott Adams

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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