Morality Quotes

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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. — Benjamin Franklin
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely… — Bertrand Russell
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings.… — Louis Sachar
Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and… — Barbara Kingsolver
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility… — Milan Kundera
And here I always thought morality was useless — Jeff Lindsay
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not… — Bertrand Russell
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. — Hunter S. Thompson
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word… — Stephen R. Lawhead
I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then… — Donald Miller
But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately… — T.H. White
What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that… — Ayn Rand
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. — Bertrand Russell
We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times… — Philip Zimbardo
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. — C.S. Lewis
Morality, too, is a question of time. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when… — Stanley Milgram
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is… — Saul Alinsky

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