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- Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
- The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
- God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly…
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,…
- Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly…
- When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of…
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
- The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
- Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are…
- Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in…
- The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
- The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree…
- If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the…
- I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman…
- I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or…
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
- A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger…
- Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in…
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- 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