Good Moral Quotes
28 quotes by 24 authors
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.
— David Hume
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Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
— Thomas Merton
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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…
— John Selden
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Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.
— Samuel Adams
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Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.
— Li Hongzhi
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Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. These…
— Gouverneur Morris
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I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those…
— Alan Dershowitz
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All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
— Joseph Lancaster
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Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
— George Washington
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The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of order,…
— Gouverneur Morris
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A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
— George Washington
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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and…
— Aristotle
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
— Plato
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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether…
— Luc de Clapiers
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The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.
— Walter Lippmann
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Good morals lead to good laws.
— Chuck Norris
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Who Wrote These Good Moral Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 28 Good Moral Quotes as follows: