Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

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

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

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

Young, Andrew

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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 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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Froude, James A.

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Diderot, Denis

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

Paul, Jean

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Lippmann, Walter

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