Morality Quotations
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| Morality is a private and costly luxury. | |||
| - Henry B. Adams | |||
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| Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus? | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
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| The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. | |||
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |||
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| Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. | |||
| - Graham Greene | |||
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| Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. | |||
| - Thomas Hardy | |||
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| Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. | |||
| - Michel de Montaigne | |||
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| Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. | |||
| - Llewelyn Powers | |||
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| We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
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| What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. | |||
| - Alfred North Whitehead | |||