• 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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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 168 reads

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

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 39 votes · 116 reads

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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.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 15 reads

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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.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  4.0 · 5 votes · 185 reads

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• 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.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.4 · 35 votes · 42 reads

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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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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 54 votes · 180 reads

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• Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 60 votes · 184 reads

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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

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.3 · 20 votes · 194 reads

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  3.4 · 47 votes · 25 reads

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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.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 190 reads

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

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 165 reads

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• Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  3.4 · 52 votes · 128 reads

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• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 116 reads

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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.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 132 reads

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• Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 21 reads

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• Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 177 reads

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• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.5 · 50 votes · 171 reads

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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.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 71 reads

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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.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.3 · 45 votes · 15 reads

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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.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 3 reads

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

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.2 · 15 votes · 152 reads

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• Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 63 reads

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• 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.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 64 reads

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 5 reads

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• The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 48 reads

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

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 15 reads

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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.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 125 reads

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• The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 48 reads

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• 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.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.4 · 17 votes · 195 reads

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• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 139 reads

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

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 162 reads

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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.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.4 · 52 votes · 190 reads

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

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  3.2 · 45 votes · 177 reads

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 149 reads

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• There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 110 reads

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• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 113 reads

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• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 2 reads

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• Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 126 reads

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

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.6 · 14 votes · 114 reads

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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.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.1 · 61 votes · 124 reads

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• 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.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.4 · 25 votes · 140 reads

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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.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 7 reads

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• We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.3 · 45 votes · 42 reads

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• We moralize among ruins.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 118 reads

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

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.1 · 35 votes · 63 reads

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• 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.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 19 reads

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