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Morality Quotes
"Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children."
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"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
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"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
"So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues."
"Not To Attempt To Control Sinful Behavior Is To Attempt Godly Principles."
"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom."
"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."
"Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination."
"If your intentions are good, nothing bad can happen."
"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."
"Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow."
"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."
"An oath is the most powerful weapon we have in our struggle against fornication and adultery."
"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
"I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years."
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
"Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin."
"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."
"Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul."
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
"All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will."
"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality."
"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
"Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don't entertain immorality."
"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."
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