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Morality Quotes
"Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal."
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"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."
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"Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
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"Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death."
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"Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness."
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"Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble."
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"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
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"Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality."
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"Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense."
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"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."
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"By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity."
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"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
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"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
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"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"
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"There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top."
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"He was a crystal of morality among our scientists."
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"Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer."
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."
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"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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"It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion."
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"No man is more cheated than the selfish man."
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"We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right to let them be killed. Since all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether, and why, we have the right to kill."
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"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."
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"Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes."
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"I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from."
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"If you are good, they say you are weak."
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"The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie."
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"The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife."
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"If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world."
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"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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"Angels possess greater powers than do human beings."
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"You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?"
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"General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer."
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"Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical."
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"Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness."
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