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Morality Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its…
- Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by…
- It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of…
- I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
- We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
- It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
- I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
- An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
- The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
- War does not decide who is right but who is left.
- Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
- Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
- Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
- Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
- An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable
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
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- 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