Morality Quotes

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Strength in its meaning doesn’t mean to do till you are tired but how much you can reach when you are already tired

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
- Voltaire

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Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
- George Marshall

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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
- Lord Byron

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Who ever supermoralizes unmoralizes.
- Samuel Taylor

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
- Henry B. Adams

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde

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Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
- Ambrosius Macrobius

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
- A. J. Ayer

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
- Thomas Hardy

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The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
- Noel Coward

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Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu jitsu.
- Gerald Stanley Lee

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Oscar Wilde

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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
- Sallust

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Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
- William J. Durant

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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
- George Bernard Shaw

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
- Arnold Bennett

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What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.
- Havelock Ellis

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
- Isaac Asimov

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Those who often speak highly of morals are those who often lack them.
- Kerry Salesman

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- Denis Diderot

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
- Karl Kraus

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
- Immanuel Kant

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

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As for morality, well that’s all tied up with the question of consciousness.
- Roger Penrose

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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
- Graham Greene

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
- Michel Montaigne

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- G. K. Chesterton

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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
- Thomas Babington

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There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
- Ayn Rand

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But the imposition of morality onto science, where it does not belong has become rampant in recent years.
- Bill Condon

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