Morality Quotes

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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. — Herman Kahn
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard… — James W. Loewen
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. — Austin Phelps
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due… — Virchand Gandhi
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality. — Lord Acton
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the… — Dee Hock
Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger. — Umar
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty. — Lord Acton
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality. — Lord Acton
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve… — George Elliott Clarke
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such… — Arthur E Waite
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense… — Jonathan Sacks
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular… — Henry Mayhew
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a… — Walter Rodney
Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest,… — Bruce R. McConkie
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed… — Pope Pius XII
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. — Pope Pius XII
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth. — Gautama Buddha
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret… — Michel de Montaigne
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from… — David Hume

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