Morality Quotes

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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. — Max Lerner
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. — Clarence Day
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost… — Baruch Spinoza
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,… — Oscar Wilde
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. — Charles Caleb Colton
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet… — Malcolm Gladwell
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it. — Thomas Paine
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great… — Louis Kronenberger
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Veracity is the heart of morality. — Thomas Huxley
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the… — Thomas Jefferson

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