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- To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
- If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
- Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure…
- Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.
- Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is…
- We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but…
- The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us…
- What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns…
- Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.
- Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and…
- There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
- People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit…
- Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the…
- The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.
- Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
- Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
- What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
- Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going…
- Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities…
- Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a…
More Morality Quotes
- [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
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand
- The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality,… — C.S. Lewis
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams