#moral

Fear is the mother of morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality #mother

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#dreary #make #morals #wrong #you

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #degeneration #fatty #his #man

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#among #duty #expressed #good #happy

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #called #charm #christian #constitute

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#came #courage #facts #found #had

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral. ↗

— Randall Terry

#forces #give #go #government #immoral

Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural. ↗

— Henri Gregoire

#monsters #moral #natural #order

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here. ↗

— David Davis

#here #i #lowest #morale #point