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Morals Quotes (page 22)

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been Charles Dickens
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk. C. S. Lewis
Jack London quote: "John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall betweenone's..."
John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall betweenone's immediate desires and long-learned morality. Jack London
Stendhal quote: "After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a..."
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne. Stendhal
John Irving quote: "He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lessong."
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lessong. John Irving
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the..."
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. George Bernard Shaw
There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger. Bret Harte
Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone. Stephen King
Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this—although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power. Friedrich Nietzsche
Graham Greene quote: "Never presume yours is a better morality."
Never presume yours is a better morality. Graham Greene
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends. Charles Dickens
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man’s personal responsibility for his action is falsely justified in two ways: by assuming that man is only an animal and by giving a sense of guilt the tag “morbid. Fulton J. Sheen
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Margaret Atwood quote: "I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about..."
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. Margaret Atwood

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