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Moral Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
- Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he)…
- It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a…
- Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here…
- The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
- The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of…
- The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
- To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some…
- It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
- One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty…
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea…
- Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate…
- If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,…
- It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was…
- It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has…
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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