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Moral Quotes by Will Durant
- There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
- A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,…
- Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.…
- The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is…
- Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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