Morality Quotes - Page 37

• Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Wrestling, Church, Sportsmanship

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• The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Godly, Safety, Presidential

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• To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Godly, Men, Light

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.55, A&C Black

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• We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

  Christina Stead

  Love, Art, Men

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• Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Passivity Is, Social Transformation

  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• Civilization depends on morality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Depends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• The market has no morality

  Michael Heseltine

  Responsibility, Ethics, Business Ethics

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• Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

  Leon Blum

  Integrity, Choices, May

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• Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

  Jane Rule

  Order, Mimicking, Ethics

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Motherhood, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

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• We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

  Joe Baca

  War, Fighting, Democracy

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• Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

  Antonio Damasio

  Art, Technology, Justice

  "Self Comes to Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

  William H. Masters

  Pregnancy, Dimensions, Doe

  "Two Sex Researchers on the Firing Line" by William H. Masters in LIFE, June 24, 1966.

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• The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

  Patrick Henry

  Government, Armor, Pillars

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ethics And Morals, Moral Ethics, Rational

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• Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

  Edward F. Hennessey

  Issues, Organization, Example

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• Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

  Paul Tillich

  Dozen, Tests, Ethics

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• How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

  David Brooks

  Honesty, Character, Arrows

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• Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

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• The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

  Immanuel Kant

  Acceptance, Growth, Atheism

  "Faith Or Fact" by Henry Moorehouse Taber, (p. 86), 1897.

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• A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Loyalty, Religious, Law

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• The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Government, Political

  "My New Order". Book by Adolf Hitler, p. 144, 1941.

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• Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religion, Liberty, Politics

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• If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Enemy, Suffering

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.36

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