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Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality. — C.S. Lewis

The average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality. — Mary McCarthy

That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder. — Daniel Berzsenyi

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules. — John Irving

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

There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client. — Harry Jones

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. — William Safire

Today's sin is tomorrow's alternative lifestyle. — Marty Rubin

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. — Jack London

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism. — Michael Horton

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

Morality is totally God's standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible). — Reid A. Ashbaucher

Whether someone's a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Parsi, they are foremost a human being. And that entitles them to a morality and kindness. — Sulaiman Dawood

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed. — Christopher Earle

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

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. — Colin Higgins

What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart. — Embeth Davidtz

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. — Milan Kundera

Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality. — Andrei Tarkovsky

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete. — Brian Aldiss

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. — C.S. Lewis

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality. — Petronius

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

It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit

There is only one way fit for a man
Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings. — Marty Rubin

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

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle
Hippocrates rest in peace. It's time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead. — Anurag Shourie

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

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds. — Robert Kennedy

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. — Abraham Lincoln

Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Morality's like mink," I said. "It's great if you can afford it. — Susan Howatch

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it. — Noam Chomsky

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere. — Alasdair MacIntyre

...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality. — Lewis N. Roe

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. — Karl Kraus

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality. — Stephen Fry

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

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

If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross. — Tracy Manaster

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. — Kurt Vonnegut

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. — C.S. Lewis

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process. — Alan Dershowitz

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another — Hesiod

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

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

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

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up. — Penn Jillette

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right. — Lyndon Johnson

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging — Satyajit Das

All the social ills that
law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to
learn and grow. — Jeremy Locke

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. — William S. Burroughs

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

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake. — Victor Cousin

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

It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar. — Anne Rice

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is. — George McGovern

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

no doubt that evil is more contagious than good, therefore, it's more powerful. — Anonymous

Your morality isn't the only morality in the world. Just because it's yours doesn't mean it's right. — Kendare Blake

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him. — Pope Benedict XVI

I don't want to become like him. Become one of those people who believe it's okay to do anything to anyone if it achieves the 'right' end. — Lisa M. Lilly

We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live. — Marty Rubin

It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large. — Alan Arkin

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

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality. — Henry Cloud

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan. — Noam Chomsky

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in. — Sarah Addison Allen

A woman's not a woman till the pills wear off. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing; — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C.S. Lewis

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. — Frans De Waal

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality. — Chris Noth

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life. — Lee Pace

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work. — Martin McDonagh

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future. — T.M. Williams

Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women. — Anand Neelakantan

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid. — Ozzy Osbourne

Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash. — Robert De Niro

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible. — Ashly Lorenzana

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

It's a sin only if it harms you — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil. — Auliq Ice

It's not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn't make them less important — Margherita Hack

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