Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Denis Diderot

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Sallust

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Voltaire

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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