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Morality Quotes
"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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"As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good."
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"That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?"
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"While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland."
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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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"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength."
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"Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy."
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"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all."
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"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
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"In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places."
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"The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
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"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."
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"A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation."
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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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"I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me."
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"Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good."
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"The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. One the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill."
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"Evil never dies. It just changes faces."
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"Cheating, betraying its easy, changing partner like clothes its easy that's why people run there.Honesty is so difficult ,only people with power of self respect Do it."
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"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered...it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful."
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"I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so little that is positive good, even if we negatively avoid what is actively evil."
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"The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy."
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"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
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"We live in a culture that celebrates talent more than integrity, but we've got it backward. Talent depreciates over time. So do intellect and appearance. You will eventually lose your strength and lose your looks. You may even lose your mind. But you don't have to lose your integrity. Integrity is the only thing that doesn't depreciate over time. Nothing takes longer to build than a godly reputation. And nothing is destroyed more quickly by one stroke of sin. That's why it must be celebrated and protected above all else."
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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."
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"Morality is not respectability."
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"The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure."
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"In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about."
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"Sincerity' and 'morality' is the basement of this world."
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"Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is."
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"Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great."
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