Morality Quotes
Morality is a private and costly luxury.Morality
Adams, Henry Brooks
1838-1918 American Historian
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
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Anouilh, Jean
1910-1987 French Playwright
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.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what s right.
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Asimov, Isaac
1920-1992 Russian-born American Author
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules
1910-1989 British Philosopher
I m as pure as the driven slush.
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Bankhead, Tallulah
1903-1968 American Actress
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.
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Bataille, Georges
1897-1962 French Novelist Critic
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
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Bevan, Aneurin
1897-1960 British Labor Politician
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.
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Buchanan, Patrick
1938 American Statesman
Though sages may pour out their wisdom s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
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.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
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Carter, Angela
1940-1992 British Author
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.
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Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
1741-1794 French Writer Journalist Playwright
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.
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Coles, Robert
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it s set a rolling it must increase.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
The higher the building the lower the morals.
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Coward, Noel
1899-1973 British Writer
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
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Crowley, Aleister
1875-1947 British Occultist
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
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Crowley, Aleister
1875-1947 British Occultist
A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
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Dane, Frank
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Diderot, Denis
1713-1784 French Philosopher
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.
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Didion, Joan
1934 American Essayist
We moralize among ruins.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Durant, William J.
1885-1981 American Historian Essayist
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
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Feoude
A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Ferber, Edna
1887-1968 American Author
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.
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France, Anatole
1844-1924 French Writer
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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Froude, James A.
1818-1894 British Historian
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.
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Goldman, Emma
1869-1940 American Anarchist
Don t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Greene, Graham
1904-1991 British Novelist
We may pretend that we re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
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Hands, Terry
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
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Hattersley, Roy
1932 British Statesman
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
The end never really justifies the meanness.
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Hulse, E. Duane
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
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Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von
1767-1835 German Statesman Philologist
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Hume, Basil
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
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.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
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.
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Johnson, Pamela Hansford
1912-1981 British Writer
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Kant, Immanuel
1724-1804 German Philosopher
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
1929-1968 American Black Leader Nobel Prize Winner 1964
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
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Kraus, Karl
1874-1936 Austrian Satirist
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Kraus, Karl
1874-1936 Austrian Satirist
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.
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Lao-Tzu
BC 600 Chinese Philosopher Founder of Taoism Author of the Tao Te Ching
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Lavater, Johann Kaspar
1741-1801 Swiss Theologian Mystic
There s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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Lawrence, D. H.
1885-1930 British Author
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.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
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Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
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.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
Might was the measure of right.
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Lucan, F. L.
39-65 Roman Epic Poet
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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Macaulay, Thomas B.
1800-1859 American Essayist and Historian
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.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
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?
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Neeson, Liam
1952 British-born American Actor
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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Paul, Jean
We become moral when we are unhappy.
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Proust, Marcel
1871-1922 French Novelist
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Rand, Ayn
1905-1982 Russian Writer Philosopher
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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Reagan, Ronald
1911 Fortieth President of the USA Actor
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.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
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.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
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.
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Selden, John
1584-1654 British Jurist Statesman
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.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
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.
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Sharpe, Cecil J.
1859-1924 British Collector of Folk Songs and Dances
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
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Shawcross, Lord
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.
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Shuman, Rick
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
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Sica, Vittorio De
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
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Sila-Prabhrita
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.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
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.
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Sontag, Susan
1933 American Essayist
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
1850-1895 Scottish Essayist Poet Novelist
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant s truce between virtue and vice.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Don t be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
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.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it s morally right. That s not always the case.
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Unknown, Source
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.
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Warshow, Robert
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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Washington, George
1732-1799 First President of the USA
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.
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Weil, Simone
1910-1943 French Philosopher Mystic
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Wells, H.G.
1866-1946 British-born American Author
Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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Young
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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Young, Andrew
1932 Civil Rights Activist Protestant Minister Public Official
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
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Zimmermann, Johann Georg
1957 German Physicist