Morality Quotes - Page 36

• The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Views, Law

  Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.361

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• The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Support

  Charles Grandison Finney (1840). “Skeletons of a Course of Theological Lectures”, p.238

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• It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  States, Forbidden

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• False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Names, People

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• Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Heart, Unseen Things

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.466, Macmillan

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• Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

  David Farland

  Evil, Stronger, Way

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• Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ).

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Blood, Jail

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• If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Women, Believe, Character

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• The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

  Horace

  Courage, Race, Law

  "Carmina". I. 3. 25,

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• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

  Walter Benjamin

  Time, Giving, Consistency

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• Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Perfection, Proof

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3150, Manonmani Publishers

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• Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that
  tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Tyrants

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Beautiful, Dream, Illusion

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• Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

  Guo Moruo

  Literature, Kind, Revolutionary

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• Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

  Victoria Ocampo

  Discipline, Cleanliness, Habit

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• Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

  Marc Maron

  Motherhood, Surveillance, Retard

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• I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child’s own welfare.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

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• With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

  Richard Dawkins

  Pigs, Abortion, Adults

  Richard Dawkins‏ @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

  Ruth Gordon

  Live Life, Aim, Ifs

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• Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.

  Will Eisner

  Communication, Egypt, Ideas

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• It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks

  Peter Fonda

  Two, Long, Parent

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• We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.

  Dennis Quaid

  Dream, Dragons, Lines

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• The only morality in a cruel world is chance.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Dark, World, Unbiased

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• In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

  Randy Wayne

  Party, Care, Conflict

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