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“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”

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Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”

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Author:Mae West

“Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.”

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Book:The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]

Source: The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

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Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”

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

Use Used Moral Power Morality Insomnia

Author:Andrew Young

“What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?”

People Doe Happens Past Evil Situation Morality Triumph Good People

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.”

Seems Emotion Morality Unlikely

Author:Julian Baggini

“It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.”

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Author:Julian Baggini

“Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.”

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Author:Frans de Waal

“Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.”

May Morality

Author:Frans de Waal

“The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.”

Humans Justice Compassion Morality Pillars

Author:Frans de Waal

“We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.”

Believe Reality Morality Behave Somewhere Else

Author:Greg Graffin

“I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.”

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Author:Jonathan Haidt

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.”

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Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”

Inspirational Half Mankind Morality

Author:Mark Twain

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

Source: The Algebra of Infinite Justice

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

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Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.”

“Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.”

“You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.”

Trying Humans Differences Morality Tricky Rationalize

Book:Practical Demonkeeping

Source: Practical Demonkeeping

“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.”

“The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.”

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Book:Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition

Source: Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

“Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.”

Knows Government Moral Morality Tone Ethical

Book:The Unconscious Civilization

Source: The Unconscious Civilization

“And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!”

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Book:The Brethren

Source: The Brethren

“One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.”

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Book:Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.”

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Author:Charles Dickens

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.”

Writing Morality Fundamentals Statements Crafts Sole Accuracy

Book:Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce: With Pound's Essays on Joyce

Source: Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce: With Pound's Essays on Joyce

“Never presume yours is a better morality.”

Morality

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.”

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Book:Endgame

Source: Endgame

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”

Hard Music Morality Temptation

Author:Prince

“The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless, because money cannot be obtained through work, but through exploitation of others. And if we cannot exploit as much as we wish, at least let us work as little as we can. Moral duty? We believe neither in the morality of man nor in the morality of systems. [p. 168]”

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Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

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Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”

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Book:Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“Grub first, then ethics.”

Firsts Food Morality Eating Ethics Dignity Cooking Cynicism Altruism

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.”

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

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