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Morality is contraband in war. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. — John Donne

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

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. — Henry David Thoreau

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

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality ... — Marya Mannes

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

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it. — John N. Gray

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

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. — Robert Bork

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

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

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

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

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. — Ayn Rand

If you're smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can — Joni Mitchell

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

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty. — Lord Acton

If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place. — Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

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

Fear is the mother of morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners — Laurence Sterne

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

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

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

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

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity - akin to torture. — Sandra Lee Dennis

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. — Karl Kraus

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. — Jean Rostand

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw. — George Bernard Shaw

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty. — Frank Tallis

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

What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality. — Georges Bataille

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

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. — G.E. Moore

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

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies. — Rob Morrow

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

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it. — Thomas Paine

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

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

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

[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

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

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it. — Jim Butcher

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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 good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right. — Neal Shusterman

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed. — A.J. Quinnell

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

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold

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

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt

The great enemy of morality is indifference. — Albert Schweitzer

Morality begins at the point of a gun. — Mao Zedong

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised. — Marcus Aurelius

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. — Larry McMurtry

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

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder. — Frederick Douglass

in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society — Francis A. Schaeffer

Morality never scratch the back of corruption — Kishore Bansal

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. — David Hume

Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live. — Harry G. Frankfurt

A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality. — Zygmunt Bauman

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

It's a morality that keeps humans human. — Shimon Peres

Religion gets in the way of morality. — Kim Campbell

Never presume yours is a better morality. — Graham Greene

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it. — Frans De Waal

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

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form. — Christopher Hitchens

There are no eternal truths. Morality and Truth are just a matter of perspective. — Jenifer Mohammed

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range. — Corliss Lamont

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. — Herbert Spencer