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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of slave morality. — Judith Butler

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth. — David Gergen

He was as great as a man can be without morality. — Alexis De Tocqueville

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics. — Peter J. Boettke

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something? — John Legend

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

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right. — Peter Marshall

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. — Richard Steele

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others. — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. — Felix Adler

Perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others. — Anne Perry

Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture. — Bell Hooks

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams. — Plato

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. — Herbert Spencer

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor — H.L. Mencken

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. — Jeff Koons

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large. — Douglas Preston

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist. — G.K. Chesterton

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing. — Rebecca Manley Pippert

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never. — Jules Renard

In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality. — Alain De Benoist

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. — Anthony Burgess

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. — George Bernard Shaw

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill

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

Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral. — Debasish Mridha

Mere Morality can be summarized as: using instinct, law, and reason as guides, try to act with the intention of minimizing harm. — Dan Barker

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress. — Sam Harris

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. — Pythagoras

As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world. — Steven D. Levitt

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. — G.E. Moore

Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I deny morality as I deny alchemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc De Clapiers

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry. — Voltaire

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. — Baruch Spinoza

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life. — Sigmund Freud

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery. — Robert Anton Wilson

What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right. — Roy T. Bennett

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality. — Thomas Jefferson

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality. — Laurell K. Hamilton

What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right. — E.A. Bucchianeri

In a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor. — Julia McNair Wright

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume

If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity. — Debasish Mridha

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. — George Bernard Shaw

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people. — Anton Chekhov

The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings. — J.S.B. Morse

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, — Yitzhak Shamir

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him. — Dwight L. Moody

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality. — Swami Vivekananda

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. — Huston Smith

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. — Kahlil Gibran

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be. — James Anthony Froude

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy. — Ian Svenonius

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality. — Sam Harris

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. — Robert Neelly Bellah

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so. — Eliza Haywood

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert

Do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality. — Brad Warner

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

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality. — Greg Gutfeld

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

An impostor would not have the same value as the original person in society. — Saaif Alam

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest ... That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. — Andrew Young

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell

There's no such thing as morality. — Robert M. Pirsig

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. — Roger L'Estrange

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. — Ronald Dworkin

A Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases, — Diana Gabaldon

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. — Charles Dickens

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere. — Barry Unsworth

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson

Free will is as important to the law as it is to religion or any other code of morality. We do not punish the leopard for its wildness. — William Landay

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

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. — A.W. Tozer

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. — Stephen Young

He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want. — Lionel Shriver

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor. — Edward Albee

Myth safeguards and enforces morality, as Malinowski proclaimed, and if there are no myths there will be no morality. — Rollo May

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
— Vernon Howard

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am. — Napoleon Bonaparte

While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us," she said, "at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality. — Roger Zelazny

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in. — Richard Gere

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble. — Nachman Of Breslov

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master? — Walter Rodney

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

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