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Morality Quotes
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
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"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
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"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness."
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"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"
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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
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"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
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"Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny."
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"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
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"In some stories, it's easy. The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
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"One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way."
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"But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil."
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"Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form."
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"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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"I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler."
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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
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"The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them."
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"Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life " and being successful."
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"To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality."
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
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"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality."
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"Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told."
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"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
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"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men."
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"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong."
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"When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie."
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"The sin of fornication hinders a person from enjoying God's blessings."
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"He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path."
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"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality."
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"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously."
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