Distance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

— Eric Hoffer

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

— Martin Sheen

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

— Rex Stout

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

— John Armstrong

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

— James Anthony Froude

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than…

— Laurence Sterne

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the…

— Marlene Zuk

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the…

— Oscar Wilde

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

— Harry Emerson Fosdick