Morality Quotes And Sayings

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“No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.”
– Charles Finney

“The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.”
– Charles Finney

“The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.”
– Charles Finney

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“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

“It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes – whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.”
– Frederick W. Robertson

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars.”
– George Washington

“Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.”

– George Washington

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
– George Washington

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
– Mark Twain

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
– Laurence Sterne

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
– Albert Einstein

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.”
– Anonymous

“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”
– Richard dawkins

“Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality – which answers only to my heart – is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
– Brandon Sanderson

“How can one be well…when one suffers morally?”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”
– Margaret Mead

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
– Aesop

“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from “Rediscovering Lost Values”)”
– Martin Luther King Jr

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”
– Stephen R. Lawhead

“Survival,” I said softly. “It’s selfish, and it’s dark, and we’ve always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.”
– Rachel Caine

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