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Best Moral Quotes by Mark Twain
- The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
- The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he…
- It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting…
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves…
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
- The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
- The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
- To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public…
- The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred…
- We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
- It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting…
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