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Moral Quotes by Mark Twain
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly…
- The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
- The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears…
- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them…
- Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
- We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
- As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
- It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the…
- You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.
- It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.
- The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
- Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The…
- The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
- France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
- When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are…
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
- Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
- What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year.…
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