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Morality Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he…
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I…
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
- Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
- With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
- The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
- All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
- Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy…
- When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of…
- Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are…
- Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in…
- Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
- Health is the requisite after morality
- Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
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