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  • A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

    John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag
  • What is moral is what you feel good after.

    Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)
  • I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

    "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
  • Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

    Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”
  • The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

    Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers
  • We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

    Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1930). “Moving Forward”
  • About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

    Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)
  • Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

    Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.194
  • I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

    Suicide   Crazy   Angel  
  • Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

    "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.
  • Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

    Men   Moral   Should  
  • I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

  • A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

  • All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

  • Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

  • To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

    Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal, Uma Iyengar (2003). “The essential writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”, Oxford Univ Pr
  • I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.

  • Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

    Moral   Mankind   Humans  
    Interview with William Dowell, content.time.com. May 10, 1999.
  • The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of order, and to impress them with respect for. lawful authority. Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man towards God.

    Education   Men   Order  
  • The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

    Man and Superman (1903) act 1
  • The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

    Men   Favors   Facts  
    Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.534, Psychology Press
  • Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

    Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.

    Men   Thinking   Law  
  • Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner), having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others ("autrui", Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.

    "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 43), 1937.
  • Bad company ruins good morals.

  • He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

    Dog   Hurt   Play  
    John Selden (1800). “The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State”, p.75
  • Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

    Men   Errors   Spheres  
  • The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

    Law   People   Guy  
  • In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

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