Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

- Hattersley, Roy

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Locke, John

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Voltaire

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Froude, James A.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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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.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Denis Diderot

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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'Wrong'is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scott Adams

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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.

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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