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Morality Quotes
"The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others."
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"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
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"No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that 'a gentleman does not cheat', than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers."
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"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"
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"Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong."
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"Beauty of body doesn't matter ,Many snakes are beautiful but you cant keep them in home because their nature to sting and kill by their poison which all they have inside So matter is what is Inside Not Out side Beauty."
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"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
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"All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will."
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"I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good."
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"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
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"You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?""The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civicvirtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the bodypolitic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life.The civilian does not."
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"Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others."
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"I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal."
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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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"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage."
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"But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?"
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"Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you."
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"Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time."
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"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
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"You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. It's sort of what we have instead of God."
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"I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years."
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"Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. 'But I'm an emotional eater, ' she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. 'And I was real emotional in jail."
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"Do you think it's dirty money? All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it."
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"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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"It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation."
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"When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!"
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"Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than any other good, and for the sake of which man is prepared if necessary to go against all the laws, against, that is, reason, honour, peace and quiet, prosperity - in short against all those fine and advantageous things - only to attain that primary, best good which is dearer to him than all else?"
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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
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"About morals, 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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"What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?"
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"Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has."
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"I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths."
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