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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Morality is contraband in war. — Mahatma Gandhi

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering. — Sam Harris

There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. — Jon Erickson

The only morality in a cruel world is chance. — Aaron Eckhart

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege. — Paul Craig Roberts

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd

A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. — Paul Eldridge

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis. — John Christopher

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. — Theodore Roosevelt

Veracity is the heart of morality. — Thomas Huxley

History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others. — Steve Maraboli

Morality, too, is a question of time. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong. — Prince

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters. — Jonathan King

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality. — Blaise Pascal

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. — Gary Hopkins

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

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. — V. Raymond Edman

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview. — Nancy Pearcey

Fear is the mother of morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. — Sam Harris

And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior. — Lawrence Durrell

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. — Alan Dershowitz

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live. — Marty Rubin

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality. — Melvin J. Ballard

morality is the change that falls from your pockets when you climb up the ladder. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

What we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right. — H.L. Mencken

Immoral is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb. — Ambrose Bierce

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. — James Baldwin

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. — Mark Twain

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. — Christopher Hitchens

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety — H.L. Mencken

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice. — Joseph B.H. McMillan

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur. — Joseph Joubert

History is more of a tragedy than it is a morality tale. — Christopher Hitchens

The great enemy of morality is indifference. — Albert Schweitzer

Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear
what you KNOW! — Faith Brashear

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral - everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief. — Andrew Holleran

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. — Adam Smith

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world. — Ann Clwyd

Morality is but the vestibule of religion. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth. — Harriet Martineau

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that. — M.J. Rose

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get. — Anita Roddick

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold

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

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. — Henry Ward Beecher

Ego is vital but not noble. — Kedar Joshi

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

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism. — Noam Chomsky

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

Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. — Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within. — Jaggi Vasudev

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is stronger than tyrants. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death. — Peter Milligan

Never presume yours is a better morality. — Graham Greene

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. — Gore Vidal

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives. — Irving Stone

There is no honour in betraying your friends. — Madeline Miller

Sincerity' and 'morality' is the basement of this world. — Dada Bhagwan

It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. — Samuel Butler

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded. — Kate Mosse

The morality of art is in its very beauty. — Gustave Flaubert

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. — H.G.Wells

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

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

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror. — Harold Edmund Stearns

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. — Adam Weishaupt

Morality is the weakness of the mind. — Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. — H.L. Mencken

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely. — Susan Wiggs

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) — Karen Armstrong

We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice. — John Stuart Mill

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. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. — William James

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. — Mahavira

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. — Joseph Addison

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. — Archibald Alexander

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values. — Zack Snyder

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him. — Julian Baggini

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent. — Gary Bauer

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