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Morality Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
- Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
- For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
- The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
- By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to…
- Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held…
- We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but…
- Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely…
- Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not…
- The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
- The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
- An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do
More Morality Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams