Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Locke, John

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Russell, Bertrand

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sallust

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Scott Adams

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar