Morality Quotes - Page 29

• In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Maturity, Simple

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p.191), 1953.

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• The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

  Aristotle

  Education, Children, School

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• Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Faith, Reality, Essentials

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• The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Objectivity, Law, History

  Isaiah Berlin (1959). “Historical inevitability”

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• History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

  Christopher Hitchens

  History, Tales

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• Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

  Lillian Hellman

  Women, Diversity, People

  Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”

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• Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2513, e-artnow

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• Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality and the laws, but of religious institutions, and honorably bear his part in supporting them.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Country, Religious, Men

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• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Patriotic, Names, Evil

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• "I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Patriotism, Criticism

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• We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.

  Linus Pauling

  Peace, War, Winning

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• Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Rights

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

  James A. Baldwin

  Power, Subtle

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• It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.
  People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• Morality binds and blinds.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Religion

  Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

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• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  U Thant

  Respect, Truth, Thrive

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• Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.

  Fethullah Gulen

  God, Respect, Spiritual

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.56, Tughra Books

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• We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

  Lech Walesa

  Respect, Future, Mean

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• So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

  George McGovern

  Truth, Lying, Thinking

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• The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Needs, World

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Power, Men

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• You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

  John Leo

  Running, People, Action

  John Leo “Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police”, Transaction Publishers

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• Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

  Janet Morris

  Tools, Belief, Worship

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.62, Paradise Publishing

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• When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Resistance

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.133

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