morality Quotes

“Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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“censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:education morality

“Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

topic:morality slavery

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do . . . So as to choose”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

topic:morality choice

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

topic:morality goodness

“people who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:madness morality

“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:religion morality

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