Moral Quotes

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?

Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.