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Alberto U. Morales Jr. · Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5 · Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales · Moralia · Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids – Aristotle
Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition. – Bryant McGill
Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. – Lewis Carroll
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. – Elias Boudinot
If a man becomes too ambitious, considering material possessions,yet with a little moral elevation and understanding,he is more likely to become malicious. – lot chakonza
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none. – Giuseppe Mazzini
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. – Ayn Rand
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – Clive Staples Lewis
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. – John Owen
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. – Dante Alighieri
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong. – Sydney Harris
Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. – Frederick Douglas
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this Look. Listen. Choose. Act. – Barbara Hall
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. – Wendell Phillips
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. – John Stuart Mill
The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. – Ronald Reagan
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. – Bertrand Russell
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. – James A. Forude
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. – Alice James
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage. – J. Lawton Collins
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. – Clarence Darrow
What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. – John B. Gough
'What good can a handgun do against an army?', is in fact a complex one and must be answered at length and carefully. It is a military question. It is also a political question. But above all it is a moral question which strikes to the heart of what makes men free, and what makes them slaves. – Bill St. Clair
...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings... – Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS

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