Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 249 Morals quotesMorals QuotesMorals Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes You know your country is dying when you have to make a distinction between what is moral and ethical, and what is legal.~ John De Armond Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.~ Vittorio de Sica ... liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.~ Alexis de Tocqueville I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property.~ Alexis de Tocqueville I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.~ Daniel Defoe Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.~ John G. Diefenbaker The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.~ Frederick Douglass Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.~ Albert Einstein A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.~ William Faulkner In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.~ Geoffrey Fisher If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.~ Larry Flynt Every attempt to gag the free expression of thought is an unsocial act against society. That is why judges and juries who try to enforce such laws make themselves ridiculous.~ Jay Fox Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.~ Benjamin Franklin A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.~ Benjamin Franklin As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.~ Benjamin Franklin To deny freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.~ James Anthony Froude I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.~ Margaret Fuller The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print