Morality Quotes

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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual… — Susan Sontag
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please… — John Selden
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow… — Laozi
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. — Karl Kraus
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day… — William O. Douglas
We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government… — Harrison Ford
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. — Robert Reich
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and… — Jonathan Schell
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made… — Rajneesh
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you… — Henepola Gunaratana
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to… — Kenny Smith
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal. — Bertolt Brecht
It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands… — Carl Jung
Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are.… — Neale Donald Walsch
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us… — Don Richardson

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