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Quotations on Morality

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by Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862)

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

by Voltaire
(November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778)

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

by George Bernard Shaw
(June 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950)

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

by Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864)

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

by Albert Schweitzer
(January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965)

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ; consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhanci ...

by Alexis de Tocqueville
(July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859)

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

by Charles Dickens
(February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870)

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, M ...

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936)

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

by Robert Louis Stevenson
(November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894)

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


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