Morality Quotes

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The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position.… — Rush Limbaugh
There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not… — Rush Limbaugh
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. — Abraham Lincoln
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in… — John Locke
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. — James Russell Lowell
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. — James Madison
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of… — James Madison
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. — Judith Martin
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free… — Mary Matalin
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. — H. L. Mencken
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. — H. L. Mencken
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and… — H. L. Mencken
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. — H. L. Mencken
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could,… — Melina Mercouri
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're… — Toni Morrison
Fear is the mother of morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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