Motivational Quotes

Morality

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

- Hattersley, Roy

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Locke, John

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Denis Diderot

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

Shuman, Rick

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

Greene, Graham

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

Shawcross, Lord

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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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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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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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

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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