Morality Quotes

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People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. — Stephen King
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is â€” not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. — Robert A. Heinlein
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights… — Sam Harris
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw
War does not decide who is right but who is left. — George Bernard Shaw
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. — George Bernard Shaw
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. — Oliver Goldsmith
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. — Linus Pauling
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. — Ezra Taft Benson
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if… — Friedrich Nietzsche
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… — C.S. Lewis
What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support… — John Irving
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst… — William P. Young
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. — Oscar Wilde
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do. — E. O. Wilson
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great… — Harold B. Lee

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