Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Shawcross, Lord

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Scott Adams

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Russell, Bertrand

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John