Morality Quotes
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
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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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There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.
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Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
