Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Morality

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Sallust

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Locke, John

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

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Froude, James A.

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Scott Adams

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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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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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