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Moral Quotes by John Dewey
- I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
- There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded,…
- Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences…
- Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
- In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as…
- The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this…
More Moral Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is… — Henry David Thoreau
- 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
- Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use… — Theodore Bikel
- Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable… — Arthur C. Clarke