#moral

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Fear is the mother of morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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