Quotes by Morality Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good. Henry David Thoreau good-moralmoralityashamed There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders. Henry David Thoreau moralityreformuse No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. Henry David Thoreau moralitylevelsmen The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals. James Martineau moralitymoralcommunity Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. James Richardson moralityvicesattention Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it. James Russell Lowell supremacyruinsmorality It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other. Jane Addams dinnerpovertymorality In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. James Russell Lowell moralityoceanliterature Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. Jane Rule moralitytestsintegrity Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible. Janet Morris moralitytoolsbelief If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. Jay Sekulow legislationmoralityspeech The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. Jayne Anne Phillips moralityloyaltyfirsts The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. Jean Anouilh immoralitymorality Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau treatsmoralitypeople When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. Jean-Philippe Rameau instinctmoralityreason One can buy anything with money except morality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau moralityshopping From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so. Jean-Paul Sartre nauseamoralitydream And here I always thought morality was useless. Jeff Lindsay moralityuseless [Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged Jean-Paul Sartre moralityreasonpeople [Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people." Jeffrey Rosen moralitylawpeople«1213141516171819202122»
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