You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise Pascal

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan Watts

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Reinhold Niebuhr

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas