Morality Quotes
1733 quotes by 913 authors
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
— Michael Shermer
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
— Herbert Spencer
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Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
— Sylvester Stallone
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I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
— Sylvester Stallone
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Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
— Lincoln Steffens
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
— Laurence Sterne
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
— Billy Sunday
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to…
— Thomas Szasz
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You can't legislate morality.
— Jesse Ventura
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
— Voltaire
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without…
— Booker T. Washington
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
— George Washington
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