Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Morality

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Scott Adams

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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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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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Greene, Graham

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Froude, James A.

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna