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Morality Quotes
"You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled."
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"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."
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"The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins."
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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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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
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"Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong." determines what is right!" right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution."
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"How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear...It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house."
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"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."
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"The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom" that is very hard indeed."
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"No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""A pit full of fire.""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""No, sir.""What must you do to avoid it?"I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die."
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"Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis:Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God."
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"A forced kindness deserves no thanks."
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"Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive."
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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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"...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not."
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"Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner."
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"You should not judge, you should understand."
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"Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes."
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"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"
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"There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!"
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"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."
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"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."
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"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."
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"The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support."
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"The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God Are Sealed Are Sealed Into Your Moral Awareness."
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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
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"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
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"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference."
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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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