We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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
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There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and
vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their
cause.
Thomas Moore
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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.
Thomas Moore
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
Don Herold
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When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
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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.
Robert Coles
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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.
Hugo Ball
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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.
Walter Lippmann
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Malcolm Lowry
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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Terry Hands
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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.
Albert Schweitzer
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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.
Edward R. Lyman
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