Morality Quotes

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Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety — H. L. Mencken
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are… — Thomas Jefferson
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in… — Thomas Jefferson
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson
Health is the requisite after morality — Thomas Jefferson
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three… — Joseph Stalin
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby.… — Barack Obama
All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and… — Neil Young
Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict… — Swami Vivekananda
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is… — Edward Albee
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. — D. H. Lawrence
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. — Andre Weil
Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him. — Julian Baggini
McEwan's Atonementâ€¦truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the pastâ€¦. The middle section of… — Noah Richler
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to… — Ayn Rand
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God. — Swami Vivekananda
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Claudia Roth
If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between humans and animals,… — Greg Koukl
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;… — Alain de Botton
If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order. — Janusz Korczak

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