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• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Tags in Theory, Morality

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Tags in Morality, Immorality

• Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Morality, Morals, Exception

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  Edgar Watson Howe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Ancestors

• Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

  Garrett Hardin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fundamentalists, Certainty, Morality

• We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

  Joe Baca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Monopoly, Fight, Weak

• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Affliction, Ignorance

• Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Good, Facts, Evil

• The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

  Ayn Rand

  Tags in Morality

• Compassion is the basis of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tags in Compassion, Morality, Morals

• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

  Aristotle

  Tags in Morality

• 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

• Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Liberty, Faith

• He was as great as a man can be without morality.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Great, Man

• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  Albert Einstein

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  Tags in Always, Morality, Scientific, Attract, Attraction, Force, Man, Men

• The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

  Alan Wilson Watts

  Tags in Morality

• Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

  Emma Goldman

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Morality, Victim

• Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Morality, Misfortune, Injurious, Poor, Property

• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality

• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Society, Truth

  Tags in Morality, Important