Motivational Quotes

Morality

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Morality

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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

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

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

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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.

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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 is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Scott Adams

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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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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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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 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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Hazlitt, William