Moral Quotes - Page 38

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in world affairs, and I hope that the president also wants to show moral leadership about this issue.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

Patience is moral elasticity.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.