Quotes in morality

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

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The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.


I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.


Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.


Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.


If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.


Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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Education is the art of making man ethical.