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Morality Quotes
"There is a big difference between being self-ist and being selfish-putting yourself first doesn't mean you have to put everyone else last."
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"Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question."
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"There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys."
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"Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species."
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"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist."
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"Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind."
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"Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity."
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"Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is."
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"The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them."
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"Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly apologetic. 'I'm sorry. I got carried away."
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"If nobody in the world were to think that I am a good person; I wouldn't care! I am aware of the fact that goodness does not materialise due to popular opinion! Goodness in fact is a state of the heart, and the heart is something that is only seen by those who have good enough eyes to see it. I am in fact more interested in being good; than in maintaining the appearance of goodness."
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"The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable."
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"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit."
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"I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes."
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"We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them."
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"Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime."
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"The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all."
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"It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway."
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"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
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"Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires..."
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"Don't hate your enemies, they don't even deserve it."
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"So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth."
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"I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart."
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"It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me."
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"Morality is not respectability."
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"If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?"
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"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."
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"The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual."
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"Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence..."
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"Not To Attempt To Control Sinful Behavior Is To Attempt Godly Principles."
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"The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure."
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