Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Froude, James A.

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Shuman, Rick

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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 greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Voltaire

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

Greene, Graham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Scott Adams

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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 attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.

Coles, Robert

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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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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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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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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Paul, Jean

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

Lowell, James 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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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