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Morality Quotes
"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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"A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world."
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"A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most."
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"I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint."
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"Compassion is the basis of morality."
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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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"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
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"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
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"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."
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"We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another."
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"The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Adversary old,Whose beckoning finger points to realms of gold;Our lusts and passions are the downward stairThat leads the soul from a diviner air;The archer, Death; the flaming jewel, Life;Terrestrial goods, the goblet and the knife;The knights and ladies all whose flesh and boneBy avarice have been hardened into stone;The clerk, the scholar whom the love of pelfTempts from his books and from his nobler self.The scholar and the world! The endless strife,The discord in the harmonies of life!The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books;The market-place, the eager love of gain,Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!"
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"Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness."
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"He was as great as a man can be without morality."
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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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"I'm a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery."
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"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
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"By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity."
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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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"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom."
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"Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination."
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"The opportunity to deceive others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross. Few of us are murderers or thieves, but we have all been liars. And many of us will be unable to get safely into our beds tonight without having told several lies over the course of the day.What does this say about us and about the life we are making with one another?"
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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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"You cannot love God and tolerate evil. Psalm 97:10."
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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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"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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"Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God."
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"So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in."
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"So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues."
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"Don't do something for recognition. Do it out of kindness ..because out of giving, it will make you whole and complete."
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