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"If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
Calvin Coolidge
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Mark Twain
"Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."
Herbert Hoover
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."
Felix Adler
"In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing, is what I am doing, beautiful or not?"
Carolyn Gifford
"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Hemingway
"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected."
George Bernard Shaw
"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."
Thomas Jefferson
"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
Aesop
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
Bertrand Russell
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
Plato
"What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
George Washington
"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live."
John Adams
"A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality."
John F. Kennedy
"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
Confucius
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well."
George Bernard Shaw
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