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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.
Author: Arthur James Balfour
Source: Foundations of Belief
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No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Shorter Catechism
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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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."
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ch. VIII)
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The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
Author: Charles Dickens
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.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.
Author: Charles Dickens
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.
Author: Charles Dickens
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.
Author: Charles Dickens
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.
Author: James Anthony Froude
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.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Divus Caesar
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Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: Our Old Home--Lichfield and Uttoxeter
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Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Morality
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There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and
vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their
cause.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Morality
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I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality?
Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Morality
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us
as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Fanny's First Play (preface)
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman
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Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Author: Gerald S. Lee
Source: None
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
Author: Harry Harrison
Source: None
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Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
Author: Don Herold
Source: None
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Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.
Author: Justice William O Douglas
Source: None
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When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Author: Libby Houston
Source: None
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I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.
Author: Robert Coles
Source: None
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It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
Author: Alan Dershowitz
Source: None
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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
Author: Hugo Ball
Source: None
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
Author: Walter Lippmann
Source: None
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Author: William J. Durant
Source: None
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Author: Stanley Baldwin
Source: None
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What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
Author: Malcolm Lowry
Source: None
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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Author: Terry Hands
Source: None
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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
Source: None
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Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
Author: V. Raymond Edman
Source: None
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Author: Irving Layton
Source: None
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The end never really justifies the meanness.
Author: E. Duane Hulse
Source: None
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Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.
Author: Edward R. Lyman
Source: None
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So far, 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.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Source: None
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To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
Author: H.l. Mencken
Source: None
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If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.
Author: Hazrat Ali
Source: None
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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Author: Feoude
Source: None
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Author: Joan Didion
Source: None
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Author: Anne Frank
Source: None
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I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.
Author: Alvin Burger
Source: None
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Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
Author: Antonin Artaud
Source: None
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