Morality Quotes

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We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation of… — David Hume
Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is… — Albert Einstein
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you… — Nhat Hanh
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the intricate web of… — Joanna Macy
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it… — Gautama Buddha
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices… — Joanna Macy
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it… — Jerome K. Jerome
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600. — Peter McWilliams
How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have… — Elizabeth Hay
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce
The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility — Brock Chisholm
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right… — Brock Chisholm
Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce… — Sigmund Freud
Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going… — William Coulson
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities… — John Rawlings Rees
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a… — John A. Stormer
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil,… — Thomas Carlyle
Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality. — C.S. Lewis

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