Morality Quotes

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It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness.… — David A. Bednar
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the… — Milton Friedman
I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can… — Sebastian Faulks
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man… — Freeman Tilden
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer… — Haile Selassie
Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy. — Ella Leya
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot… — Guido von List
Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and Iâ€™m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line. — S.C. Stephens
Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others. — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the… — Paul Krugman
Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules. — Jubal
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable… — C.S. Lewis
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality — Ayn Rand
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ.… — Thomas Chalmers
A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries… — Randy Wayne White
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns

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