Morality Quotes

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We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is — Joan D. Chittister
For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me. — Joseph Scheidler
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. — George Washington
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of… — Benjamin Hoff
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but… — Linus Pauling
Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As… — Ernest Renan
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft… — Elwyn Brooks White
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the… — Nicolas Chamfort
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age! — Moliere
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve. — Henry David Thoreau
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether… — Luc de Clapiers
Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart — Timothy Keller
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. — Walter Lippmann
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. — Mark Twain
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. — Oscar Wilde
There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing… — Allan Bloom

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