Moral Force

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or force:

    ... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...
    Jane Addams (1860–1935)

    I was not long since in a company where I wot not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)