Morality Quotes

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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you… — Steven Pinker
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.… — Emile Durkheim
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and… — Ludwig Feuerbach
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust… — Aldous Huxley
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. — Sathya Sai Baba
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity… — Oscar Wilde
Morality is stronger than tyrants. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Morality, when formal, devours. — Albert Camus
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its… — George Bernard Shaw
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support… — Benjamin Franklin
Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't… — John Legend
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,… — Albert Schweitzer
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of… — Jacques Barzun
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham

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