Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Denis Diderot

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Greene, Graham

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Scott Adams

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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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 purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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