Morality Quotes

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Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is… — Frederic Bastiat
True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -… — Carl Sagan
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink… — Ludwig von Mises
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel… — William James
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward… — Tryon Edwards
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the… — Thomas G. West
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,… — Steve Perry
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not… — Samuel Johnson
"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his… — Ezra Taft Benson
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,… — Edmund Burke
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns… — Edward Mayhew
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. — Bertrand Russell
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man… — Ayn Rand
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own… — Ayn Rand
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand

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