Top Morality Quotes
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
William Bennett
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Mason Cooley
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
Steven Seagal
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
Karl Jaspers 
George Combe 
Thomas Huxley 
Mikhail Bakunin 
George Bernard Shaw 
Havelock Ellis 
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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler 
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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
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis
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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
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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Simone Weil
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
Chester Irving Barnard
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I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Richard Steele
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Popular Morality Authors
Henry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyOscar WildeMohandas GandhiAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoThomas JeffersonWinston ChurchillSamuel ButlerAmbrose BierceH. L. MenckenGilbert K. ChestertonBlaise Pascal
William HazlittHenry Ward BeecherJohn RuskinDavid Herbert LawrenceBilly SundayArthur SchopenhauerE. M. ForsterLao TzuKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelJoseph AddisonHenry Wadsworth LongfellowSimone WeilThomas HuxleyJames MadisonAlbert Schweitzer
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