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Morality Quotes
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Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people. (Quote by - Don Herold)
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. (Quote by - William J. Durant)
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. (Quote by - Terry Hands)
I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them. (Quote by - Robert Coles)
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. (Quote by - Harry Harrison)
The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree On what is pure morality. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)