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Morality Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
- Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not…
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
More Morality Quotes
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must… — Eric Alterman
- I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo