Morality Quotes

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

When a blind man carries the lame man both go forward.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.