Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Denis Diderot

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Kraus, Karl

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.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Shuman, Rick

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

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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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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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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