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Moral Quotes by Christopher Dawson
- The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need…
- And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced…
- As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not…
- No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during…
- Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal…
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon