Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Huxley, Aldous

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Greene, Graham

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.

Sharpe, Cecil J.

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Paul, Jean

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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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.