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Moral Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
- Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
- No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a…
- The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing…
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to…
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so…
- All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion…
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling…
- In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything…
- ...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training…
- Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
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
- 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
- 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
- The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and… — Henry David Thoreau
- Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson