Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior… — William Damon Copy Share Image
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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