Motivational Quotes

Morality

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Morality

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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

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

Sallust

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Scott Adams

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

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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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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Seneca

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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

26.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Shawcross, Lord