Morality Quotes

1733 quotes by 945 authors

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle — George Washington
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare — Mark Twain
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest… — Gene Fowler
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of… — Blaise Pascal
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram — Edwin P Whipple
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do — Bertrand Russell
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to… — Albert Schweitzer
There can be no high civility without a deep morality — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are… — Haile Selassie I Of Ethiopia
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting… — Mark Twain
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable — George Bernard Shaw
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. — Albert Bandura
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted children living in… — William Bennett
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of… — Edmund Burke
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way… — Susan Sontag
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you… — DH Lawrence
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so… — French Proverb
He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow towards… — Proverb
While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable criminal,… — Liane Norman
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong — Henry Louis Mencken

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