Motivational Quotes

Morality

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.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Froude, James A.

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

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

Hands, Terry

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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.

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

19.

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

Denis Diderot

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Scott Adams

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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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 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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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