Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Shawcross, Lord

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Denis Diderot

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.

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

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Sontag, Susan

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

Locke, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Greene, Graham

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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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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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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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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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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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Froude, James A.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Voltaire

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Paul, Jean

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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.