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Morality Quotes
"If you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren't only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity!"
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"Having 'holy' thoughts, and doing bad deeds, such a lot are assholes indeed."
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"Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des lois toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so virtuous that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the law, he would not deserve to be hanged ten times in his life.)"
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educated, Liberal men have been about that foolish affair at Geneva. Men who have any leisure, any gifts, any resources, have no right to stifle their consciences with that degree of imposture."
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"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
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"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear."
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"You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you."
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"The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one."
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"Association with other people corrupts our character, especially when we have none."
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"When we go through life believing that we need mercy, we're more likely to extend it. As humans our tendency is to want justice for others, but mercy for ourselves. It doesn't work that way. We reap what we sow. (Galatians 6:7) And the timing isn't ours-it's God's. He often extends us mercy, not when we are well behaved, but when we are miserable, helpless, wicked, ungodly, and powerless. Even when we bring on our problems by our own choices, His mercy comes when we cry for it. To refuse to cry for it because we feel unworthy, is a win for Satan."
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"In all ThA©nardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth."
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"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."
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"Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness."
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"It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"
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"The blessings of the devil is the beginning of dread."
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"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."
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"Do not be a "go along, get along" person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!"
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"To see others' faults is a terrible mistake!"
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