Morality Quotes
1733 quotes by 952 authors
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If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.
— William Blake
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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications…
— Noah Webster
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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality
— Lilian Jackson Braun
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A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
— Vanna Bonta
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic…
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your…
— Ted Koppel
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
— Archibald Alexander
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
— Abbie Hoffman
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Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise…
— Rajneesh
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
— Joseph Addison
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulneÂss while telling carefully constructeÂd lies, to hold simultaneoÂusly two opinions which cancelled out,…
— George Orwell
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the…
— Frederic Bastiat
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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his…
— Muhammad Asad
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
— Samuel Johnson
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. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we…
— Patrick Henry
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