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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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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.”
Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
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“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
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“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes |
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“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“We have, in fact, 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 Quotes |
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“An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do”
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“Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we
should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's
back, and find them both ingenious.”
Arthur James Balfour Quotes Source: Foundations of Belief
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“No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes Source: Shorter Catechism
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“Rough Johnson, the great moralist.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 7)
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“"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if
only you can find it."”
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson) Quotes Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ch. VIII)
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“The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral
standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus
ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring
constructive mind.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in
our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence
depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and
dignity to life.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary
citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is
they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while
their "betters" were derelict.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“The moral system of the universe is like a document written in
alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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“Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and
provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Divus Caesar
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“Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes Source: Our Old Home--Lichfield and Uttoxeter
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“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”
Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes Source: Crowds (bk. IV, ch. X)
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“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Kavanagh (ch. XIII)
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“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes Source: On Moore's Life of Lord Byron
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“I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Morality
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