Morality Quotes

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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life… — Arundhati Roy
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what… — Charles Dickens
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We… — Linus Pauling
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly. — Christopher Moore
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather… — John Stuart Mill
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some… — Albert Einstein
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul
And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay… — John Grisham
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanentâ€¦ Ho ho. Take that one to bed with… — Hunter S. Thompson
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the… — Charles Dickens
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and… — Azar Nafisi
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. — Ezra Pound
Never presume yours is a better morality. — Graham Greene
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man… — Ayn Rand
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… — Derrick Jensen
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. — Spencer Johnson

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