Motivational Quotes

Morality

Might was the measure of right.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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 which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Froude, James A.

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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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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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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hands, Terry

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

Greene, Graham

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

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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

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Shawcross, Lord

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Anouilh, Jean