Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Sica, Vittorio De

Best Quotes about Morality

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.

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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Froude, James A.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Denis Diderot

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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 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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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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, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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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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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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