"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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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."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Morality, Being, Public, Symbol

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Humanity, Behavior, Limit

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God " or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?"

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Morality, Right, Reason, Commitment, Character

"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Morality, Perception, Philosophy, Ethics

"Deed of darkness is dark gloom."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Deed, Darkness, Gloom, Evil

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Courtesy, Life, Time, Truth

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"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

Values

"You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve."

Afterlife

"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

Fear

"How many things can I do without?"

Minimalism

"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."

Excellence

"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."

Philosophy

"To do is to be."

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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

"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."

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."

"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."

"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."

"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."

"Deed of darkness is dark gloom."

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

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"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

"You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve."

"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

"How many things can I do without?"

"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."

"Be true to thine own self."

"I know one thing, that I know nothing."

"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."

"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."

"To do is to be."