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Morality Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...
- The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the…
- It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would…
- The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences -…
- Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value…
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