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Dante Alighieri
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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Bible
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Bad company ruins good morals.
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Vernon Howard
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The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Albert Einstein
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Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
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Elbert Hubbard
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Morality is largely a matter of geography.
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Aldous Huxley
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The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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John Lachs
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Value is the way animal interest and partiality are experienced in consciousness. As such, they involve a relation between objects of pursuit, animal tendencies and the intuited moral essences the psyche projects on what it seeks. We cannot speak of virtu
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Karl Kraus
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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H. L. Mencken
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong.
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Alexander Pope
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From pride, from pride, our very reas???ning springs;
Account for moral, as for nat???ral things:
Why charge we Heav???n in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.
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Bertrand Russell
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Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.
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Cecil J. Sharpe
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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.
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Oscar Wilde
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Aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
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Bertolt Brecht
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Isaac Asimov
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Bible
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Bad company ruins good morals.
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Isaac Asimov
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
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William Penn
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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Lawrence Sterne
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To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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Henry Louis Mencken
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Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet. It is not to be thought of, etc._
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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
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Russell Wayne Baker
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, Letter 87, c.63-65
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Theodore Roosevelt
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To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
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Ernest Hemingway
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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.
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William Allen White
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From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
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Herbert Samuel
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Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
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Abraham Lincoln
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
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When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
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I've got morals, I just keep misplacing them.
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Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
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The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
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FOR SALE: 1 set of morals, never used, will sell cheap.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
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To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.
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"Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." - L. Long
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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
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"My morals are not loose! They're simply non-constrictive."
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"I am not a woman of loose morals!!!!!!!!" - Ayeka
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"I never knew there were lawyers with morals." -- Al Calavicci
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"My butt has no morals." - Mutant Raccoon
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Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
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"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."
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"I have morals. I just keep misplacing them." - Quark
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Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
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...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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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 i
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