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Morality Quotes
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
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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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"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
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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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"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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"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness."
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"When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie."
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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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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
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"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality."
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
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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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"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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"The sin of fornication hinders a person from enjoying God's blessings."
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"The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially."
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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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"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
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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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"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."
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"If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it."
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"Some things you sentence yourself to life for."
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"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
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"I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler."
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