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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
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
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
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
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
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
We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.
— Sam Harris
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[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
As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.
— Steven D. Levitt
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
