Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Locke, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Ferber, Edna

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Didion, Joan

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

Shuman, Rick

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Feoude