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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Frank Dane

Morality
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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
3

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Ronald Reagan

Morality
4

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality
5

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Charles Caleb Colton

Morality
6

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

Morality
7

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Henry David Thoreau

Morality
8

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

Morality
9

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Morality
10

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

Morality
11

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

Morality
12

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Thomas Carlyle

Morality
13

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

John Selden

Morality
14

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Morality
15

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Aneurin Bevan

Morality
16

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Seneca the Younger

Morality
17

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

Morality
18

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Morality
19

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

James Russell Lowell

Morality
20

It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

Anatole France

Morality
21

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

Angela Carter

Morality
22

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

Emma Goldman

Morality
23

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Horace Mann

Morality
24

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

Morality
25

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

Morality
26

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Sigmund Freud

Morality
27

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Aleister Crowley

Morality
28

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Will Durant

Morality
29

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

Morality
30

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

Morality
31

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Andrew Young

Morality
32

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Morality
33

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

Morality
34

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry Adams

Morality
35

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Karl Kraus

Morality
36

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Aldous Huxley

Morality
37

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

Morality
38

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality
39

Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

Morality
40

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality
41

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

H. L. Mencken

Morality
42

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Morality
43

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

Morality
44

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Isaac Asimov

Morality
45

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Jean Paul

Morality
46

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Aleister Crowley

Morality
47

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau

Morality
48

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James Anthony Froude

Morality
49

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 he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

Morality
50

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Georges Bataille

Morality
51

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality
52

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying

Thomas Huxley

Morality
53

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Morality
54

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Morality
55

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Noël Coward

Morality
56

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Karl Kraus

Morality
57

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristotle

Morality
58

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality
59

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Albert Einstein

Morality
60

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Jean Anouilh

Morality
61

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Nicolas Chamfort

Morality
62

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Ayn Rand

Morality
63

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Aldous Huxley

Morality
64

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde

Morality
65

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Walter Lippmann

Morality
66

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

D. H. Lawrence

Morality
67

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Morality
68

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

H. L. Mencken

Morality
69

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

John Locke

Morality
70

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
71

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Susan Sontag

Morality
72

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Marcel Proust

Morality
73

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

Morality
74

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Morality
75

We moralize among ruins.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Morality
76

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Morality
77

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Laozi

Morality
78

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Joan Didion

Morality
79

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Thomas Jefferson

Morality

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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

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.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

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.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

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 he has not been caught.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

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

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

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.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

We moralize among ruins.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.