(884 quotes found)
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
Aristotle
“Fear is the mother of morality”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness”
Immanuel Kant
“For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.”
William Bennett
“Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose”
“The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect; it is too exciting.”
“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable”
George Bernard Shaw
“The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.”
