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Morality Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
- Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
- Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
- What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
- You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
- Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted by a moral…
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