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Morality
«It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore»
«Moral: A peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deuteronomy 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord»
Author: Donald Morgan
| About:
God,
Morality,
Religion
| Keywords:
crushed, Deuteronomy, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, Holy Bible, maxim, peerless, sanctuary, testicle, testicles, The Holy Bible
«It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. (...) I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.»
«I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.»
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition»
Author: French Proverb
| About:
Adversity,
Medicine,
Misfortune,
Morality
| Keywords:
act as, ameliorates, ameliorating, bitters, chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, disagreeable, disposition, misfortunes, stomach
«Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong»
«It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare»
«I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Faith,
Life,
Morality
| Keywords:
code, countenanced, good faith, inconsistent, in public, Private Lives, public morality, strictest