Motivational Quotes

Morality

We moralize among ruins.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Morality

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Buchanan, Patrick

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Voltaire

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Sallust

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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Lowell, James Russell