Morality Quotes

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The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be… — King Hussein I
There are many religions, but there is only one morality. — John Ruskin
In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine… — John Quincy Adams
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion. — Henry Ward Beecher
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. — Jean Anouilh
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for… — Georges Bataille
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study… — Nicolas Chamfort
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness… — Thomas Carlyle
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be… — Horace Mann
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace;… — Seneca the Younger
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. — Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. — Oscar Wilde
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. — William James
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the… — Emma Goldman
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. — James Anthony Froude
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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