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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”

Doe Existence Novel Morality Ethics Immoral

Author:Milan Kundera

“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.”

Source: High Technology and Human Freedom

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

Real Ends Literature Streets Morality Garden Gates Hyenas

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.”

Artist Literature Morality Contrary Substitutes Immorality True Artists

Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

“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.”

Men Long Moral Morality Every Man Covered Refrain Trousers Decorum Backsides

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?”

“There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.”

People Ifs Has Beens Said Matter Values Culture Names Morality Standards Intention Be Good Honorable Relaxed Disintegration

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

Love Humans Might Social Cases Morality Determine Neighbor Pregnancy Human Society Neighbor Love

Author:John Locke

“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.”

Men Religion Faith Belief Differences Crime Cold Morality Diversity Human Diversity Punishing Yourself

Author:James Russell Lowell

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

Literature Morality Easier Ocean Deeper Sinking Baseness

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

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

Knows Fit Morality British Ridiculous

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.”

May Liberty Class Rights Citizens Morality Independent Independent Women Public Safety

Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“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.”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819

“Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.”

Inspirational Force Morality Teenager Immorality Discreet

Author:Judith Martin

“Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.”

People Firsts Humans Self Understanding Numbers Principles Virtue Progress Human Nature Produce Depends Morality Free Market Governance Conservatism Interacting Vests

Author:Mary Matalin

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

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Book:Works: with a life of the author

Source: Works: with a life of the author

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

Should Religion Fear Morality Behavior Eternal Ethics Punishment Ethical Fog Cowardly Ethical Behavior

Author:Margaret Mead

“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.”

Funny Moral Crazy Morality Silly Manners Agnostic Immoral Immorality

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”

Men Character Honor Morality Superiors Honour Honored Superior Man

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“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.”

Men Character Differences Moral Regret Honor Morality Ethics Caught Latter Moral Life

Author:H. L. Mencken

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

Humans Religion Theory Morality Sad Motherhood Morality And Religion

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.”

Giving Wells Two Government Names Century Morality Please British Fairness Thank You Sculpture British Government

Author:Melina Mercouri

“I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.”

Thinking Care Mother Black Inspiring Poor Morality Upset Pregnancy Mothers Day

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.”

Moral Morality Behavior Stable Synonym Marriage And Family Moral Behavior

Author:Gary Bauer

“In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.”

Morality Essentials Debate Consideration Continuing Overlooked Interrogation

Author:Gary Bauer

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

Mother Fear Morality

Book:BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past

Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”

Science Individual Morality Ethics Instinct Individuality Herds Ethics And Morals Individual Morality

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.”

Ends Steps Morality Ashamed Immorality Staircases

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

Self Character Virtue Honesty Morality Integrity Essence Tendencies Immortality Hypocrisy Exception Immoral Hypocrite Immorality Hypocrit Hull House

Author:Jane Addams

“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.”

Facts Religion Religious Morality Authority Obvious Deny Secular Sanctions Supplies

Author:Joseph Addison

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

Men Peace Sides Mines Morality Rivers Patriotism Nationalism Rulers Kill Me Quarrels Patriotism And Nationalism

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”

Action Force Causes Source Morality Our Actions Involuntary

Book:Penses

Source: Penses

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

Science Time Knowledge Ignorance Morality Scientist Vanity Affliction Console Natural Science Physical Science Knowledge And Ignorance Theory Of Knowledge

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.”

Giving Humans Human Beings Moral Psychology Morality Goodness Ethics Worthy Meaning Of Life Conception Topics Moral Goodness

Author:Steven Pinker

“The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.”

People Trying Helping Childhood Morality Comfort Offers Ethics Toys Distress Stirring Toddler

Author:Steven Pinker

“It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.”

Care Morality Easier Equal Fairs Health Care Lectures Comprehensive Coverage

Author:Martha Plimpton

“How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.”

Should Found Grows Morality Maturity Compulsion True Freedom

Book:Encounters with silence

Source: Encounters with silence

“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”

Ifs Men Religion Morality Civilization Rejects Altruism

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

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

Life Humor Happiness Purpose Suffering Dies Enjoy Teach Morality Live Life Deep Thought Objectivism Enjoy Yourself

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”

Mind Ends Reality Literature Force Morality Gun Opposites Motherhood

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

Life Inspirational Life Is Rights Achieve Morality Avoiding Avoiding Pain Avoiding Death Avoiding Life

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.”

Matter Action Law Individual Numbers Rights Morality Forbidden In-laws

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.”

Form Literature Animal Morality

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”

Way Action Happiness Force Brain Saws Morality Weakness

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.”

Christian Morality Ten Foundation Jew Symbols Visible Commandments Ten Commandments

Author:Pat Robertson

“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.”

Humans Reality Given Fiction Air Acceptance Morality Imperfect Constructs

Book:Is nothing sacred?

Source: Is nothing sacred?

“Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.”

Morality Taste Ethics

Author:John Ruskin

“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”

Art Responsibility Sacrifice Morality Ethics Oneself Cooperation Moral Ethics Morality And Ethics Ethics And Morals

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

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