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Quotes About Morality

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
~ Voltaire
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
How can you not help having sex with someone?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
~ W. C. Fields
Epictetus said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
~ W. Clement Stone
Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. Do it now!
~ W. Clement Stone
Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right.
~ W. Clement Stone
The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.
~ W. Clement Stone
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
~ W. Clement Stone
four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.
~ W. Clement Stone
Legislation in Violation of God's Natural Law Is a Scourge To Humanity
~ Unknown
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
~ Unknown
They said that everything men do—whether it is organizing a government, establishing laws, supporting a particular moral code or practicing religion—is merely the result of his desire to protect whatever mode of production he is currently using to secure the necessities of life.
~ Unknown
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.
~ Unknown
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
~ W. H. Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
~ W. H. Auden
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
~ W. H. Auden
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. –
~ W. H. Auden
He had to be what He was (perfect) to do what He did (redeem). Only by virtue of His own sinlessness could Christ die vicariously for those whose sin His life had condemned morally. God has done what the law could not do! He
~ W. Ian Thomas
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.
~ W. M. L. Jay
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
~ Unknown
Sanitizing the past is every bit as morally irresponsible as whitewashing atrocities in the present.
~ Unknown