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Morality Quotes
"What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life!"
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"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."
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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
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"General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer."
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"There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures."
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"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."
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"There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp."
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"We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another."
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"We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another."
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"It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is."
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"You should not judge, you should understand."
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"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."
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"I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."
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"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"
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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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"Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals."
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"That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?"
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"Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons."
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"My business is to forgive others."
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"The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people, it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."
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"My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you could be using your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes."
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"I believe that our sole responsibility is to reach out, uplift one another and lighten one another's burdens. If we are not doing this, then we are yet to start living. What a man owes his fellow is a transforming encounter."
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"Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin."
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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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"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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"Take off that coat,' he told him.'Sir?''You heard me.'The boy slipped out of his jacket, whining, 'What you gonna do? What I'm gonna wear?'The man untied the baby from her chest and wrapped it in the boy's coat, knotting the sleeves in front.'What I'm gonna wear?'The old man sighed and, after a pause, said, 'You want it back then go head and take it off that baby. Put the baby naked in the grass and put your coat back on. And if you can do it, then go on 'way somewhere and don't come back."
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"Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?"
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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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"Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left."
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"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."
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"One should make morals judgements for oneself."
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"I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. 'Killing is wrong. 'We kill chickens, Mr. Wexler said. 'We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers."
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"Good and bad exist always, everywhere."
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"Of course play with others life if you are good playerBut once you have to think How your reaction if your children meet with same player like you ?is it make you happy ? then continue."
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