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Letter "M" » morals
«In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.»
Author: Anna Jameson
(Essayist)
| Keywords:
fanaticism, morals, moral principle, motive, principle, wickedness
«Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.»
«A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society»
Author: Juanita Kidd Stout
| About:
Education,
Ethics
| Keywords:
educated, menace, menaced, menaces, menacing, morals, The Menace
«Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.»
«Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.»
«To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society.»
«Bad taste is a species of bad morals»
«If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, astray, confusion, deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, helpless, hence, morals, undone
«If all men cannot be brought to the same opinion on morals and religion, it is at least worthwhile to give them good reasons for as much as they can be persuaded to accept»
«Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Morality
| Keywords:
maintained, morals, observed
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