Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Dane, Frank

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Locke, John

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 the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Might was the measure of right.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Voltaire

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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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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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 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

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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