Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Shawcross, Lord

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

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

Sica, Vittorio De

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Denis Diderot

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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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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 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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

Sallust

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

Hume, Basil

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

Locke, John

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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 herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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