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• He that walketh with the virtuous is one of them.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Morality

• It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one’s virtue.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

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• The pure, upon seeing it pure, call it pure.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

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• The heart of a little child is like the heart of buddha.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

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• Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

  Barry Unsworth

  Topics in Uncategorized

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  Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Purposes, Morality
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  One of the greatest tragedies in mankind’s entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Topics in History, Religion

  Tags in Morality, Greatest

• When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Element

• Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams… but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

  Jonathan Haidt

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  Tags in Morality, Makes
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  It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  Noël Coward

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Morality, Deceit

• I’m not a good father and they’re not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers’ morality in life and they were not my people any more.

  Wilbur Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law, Morality

• Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

  Huston Smith

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Morality, Somewhere

• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Politics, Religion

  Tags in Morality

• That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

  George Saunders

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theoretically, Morality

• The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

  Paul Fussell

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  Tags in War, Morality

• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

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  Tags in Happy, Morality, Make

• I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

  Billy Sunday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Believe

• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Respect, Truth

  Tags in Morality

• But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.

  Bill Condon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science, Morality

• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

  Georges Bataille

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Morality, Essence