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The only reason for doing the right thing is that it is the right thing to do; all other reasons are reasons for doing something else. -
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The new life is not a matter of mere moral reformation, but of spiritual transformation. -
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It is always easier for us to want to purify other people, and attempt a moral reformation among our neighbors. (Yet) how much have I helped to make her what she is? -
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. -
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally,... -
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Food comes first, then morals. -
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“Moral”…is an orientation toward understandings about what is right and wrong, just and unjust, that are not established by our own actual desires or preferences but instead are believed to exist apar... -
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In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these ru... -
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You cannot make men good by law. -
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These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco... -
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The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the o... -
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All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt. -
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The disappearance of moral knowledge, in the manner reviewed, is not an expression of truth rationally secured, but is the outcome of an historical drift, with no rational justification at all or only... -
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -
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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. -
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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. -
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -
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Will it increase a man’s happiness to be converted? . . . [People] have a secret, lurking fear, that if they are converted they must become melancholy, miserable, and low-spirited. Conversion and a so... -
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There is no good or evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. -
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The devil may also make use of morality. -
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. -
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There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immo... -
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. -
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When you pass beyond good and evil, you pass into the realm where might is right, and where anything that reminds you of the old moral values—for instance, a large Jewish community—stands in your way ... -
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. -
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Critics of Christianity correctly point out that the church has proved an unreliable carrier of moral values. The church has indeed made mistakes, launching Crusades, censuring scientists, burning wit... -
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. -
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The disciples are to be a moral disinfectant in a world where moral standards are low, constantly changing, or non-existent. -
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The most determinative moral formation most people have in our society is when they learn to play baseball, basketball, quilt, cook or learn to lay bricks. -
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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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