Motivational Quotes

Morality

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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

Denis Diderot

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sallust

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Scott Adams

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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Shawcross, Lord

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