Morality Quotes

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Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat. — Hubert H. Humphrey
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell
It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. — Robert Breault
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things… — George Orwell
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and… — Robert Burns
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. — Alexander Pope
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. — Walter Savage Landor
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from… — Alfred North Whitehead
There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy. — Jimmy Carter
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. — Stendhal
Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics. — Madame de Stael
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one. — Madame de Stael
Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an… — Ursula K. Le Guin
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor… — Lord Acton

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