Motivational Quotes

Morality

We become moral when we are unhappy.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Voltaire

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

Hume, Basil

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Greene, Graham

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

Scott Adams

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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 moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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