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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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 social morality.
- John Locke

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson

Morality is of the highest importance -
but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy

Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates

Morality and its victim, the mother -
what a terrible picture!
Is there indeed anything more terrible,
more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
- Emma Goldman

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson

To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison

Every young man would do well to remember that all
successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality.
On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
- David Herbert Lawrence

My commitment to the security and future of Israel
is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest.
Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
- Gerald R. Ford

We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of
law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator,
never by the morality of the judge.
- Robert Bork

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate,
and the real wolf at the end of the street.
- David Herbert Lawrence

My parents were pretty lenient with me.
But, they gave me morality while I was growing up.
They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
- Mark Hoppus

Myths are stories that express meaning,
morality or motivation.
Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
- Michael Shermer

Chaperons, even in their days of glory,
were almost never able to enforce morality;
what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.
This is no small contribution.
- Judith Martin

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains
and equips young men and women to be leaders with high
standards of personal morality and integrity.
- Michael Burgess

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors.
The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
- Edgar Watson Howe

What is morality in any given time or place? It is
what the majority then and there happen to like and
immorality is what they dislike.
- Alfred North Whitehead

For children to take morality seriously they must be
in the presence of adults who take morality seriously.
And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
- William Bennett

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern
thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in
every other respect than in morality.
- Lafcadio Hearn

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world,
there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
- Roger Penrose

Men are more accountable for their motives,
than for anything else; and primarily,
morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
- Archibald Alexander

For us, universal values such as justice,
morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for
this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
- Robert Kocharian

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion,
but give me a little snug property.
- Maria Edgeworth

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 the church from the state.
- James Madison

Taste is the only morality.
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
- John Ruskin

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom,
who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in
a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.
- George Pataki

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality.
Teach him what is wise and beautiful,
that is religion!
- Thomas Huxley

Western civilization, unfortunately,
does not link knowledge and morality but rather,
it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
- Vine Deloria, Jr.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust,
and then lust not to follow.
- Karl Kraus

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality
plays in which good triumphs over evil.
- Sylvester Stallone

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities,
morality has often known nothing.
- Havelock Ellis

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as
the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
- Kenzaburo Oe

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
- Samuel Butler

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction
and powers of each of the branches of government.
It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
- Bob Woodward

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction
to utility or applicability,
that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
- Karl Jaspers

The true meaning of religion is thus,
not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- Matthew Arnold

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality,
is where leadership begins.
- Norman Lear

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air,
that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs,
is the point from which fiction begins.
- Salman Rushdie

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion
which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open
the door to every kind of tyranny.
- Simone Weil

Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken

Religion and morality are critical to how students
think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
- Jeanne Shaheen

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality,
as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
- Ayn Rand

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the
other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
- Roger Penrose

The essential function of art is moral.
But a passionate, implicit morality,
not didactic.
A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
- David Herbert Lawrence

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value;
the primary values are safety and morality.
- Herman Kahn

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