Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Scott Adams

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 only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Anouilh, Jean

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Sallust

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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

24.

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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Kraus, Karl

28.

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

George Bernard Shaw

29.

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

30.

We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

32.

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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

37.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Huxley, Aldous

42.

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

43.

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

Denis Diderot

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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.