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Moral Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
- Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling,…
- When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do,…
- Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
- Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility:…
- The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact…
- The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
- Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
- It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness…
- No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
- An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
- A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
- Morals are a luxury of the rich.
- HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
- Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
- An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable
- A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.
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
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac