Morality Quotes
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
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The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
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There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
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True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
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There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.
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There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
