Quotes about Moral Condition

Rutherford B. Hayes

At the basis of all prosperity, for that as well as for every other part of the country, lies the improvement of the intellectual and moral condition of the people.

George Santayana

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

Robert Peel

The real question at issue is the improvement of the social and moral condition of the masses of the population; we wish to elevate in the gradation of society that great class which gains its support by manual labour. The mere interests of the landlords and occupying tenants, important as they are, are subordinate …

Peel himself was a large land owner. Many Conservatives thought Peel was a traitor to his party and socio economic class just as many Republicans thought Theodore Roosevelt such a “traitor to his class” for not maintaining the privileges of the rich. By 2012, Conservatives who did not support the rich were vilified as “not conservatives” and “socialists.”

Samuel Johnson

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth

The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester

He called attention to the relationship between the poverty living conditions, sanitation, and the outbreak of cholera in the Manchester Cholera epidemic of 1832. He went on to advocate shorter working hours, better sanitation, and education for the mill workers.

Robert G. Ingersoll

There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress; that it is the sunshine of the mental and moral world, and that without it man will go back to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit associate of wild and ferocious beasts.

Franz Kafka

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Christopher Love

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Plato

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

Jawaharlal Nehru

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Matthew Henry

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

John Wooden

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors / how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Moral Condition Quotes