“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ”
- Vittorio De Sica- Copy
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“ In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. ”
- Karl Barth- Copy
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“ Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies. ”
- Cyrus Augustus Bartol- Copy
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“ Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ”
- Mrs. Stowe- Copy
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“ So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. ”
- Mary Ellen Chase- Copy
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“ It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. ”
- Irving Kristol- Copy
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“ Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ”
- Felix Adler- Copy
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“ To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ A man of great common sense and good taste — meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere. ”
- Neil Young- Copy
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“ An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. ”
- Terry Hands- Copy
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“ 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 C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. ”
- Basil Hume- Copy
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