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• Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Morality, Nations, Commerce, Principle

• Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Religion, Wise

  Tags in Morality, Teach, Beautiful

• We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, ridiculous, Public, Know

• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

  Tags in Morality

• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

  Karl Kraus

  Tags in Morality, Christianity

• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in God

  Tags in Morality, Indigestion

• I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

  Richard Steele

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Point, Look

• A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Right, Heart

• Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Distance

• Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

  Mason Cooley

  Tags in Morality

• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Morality, Good

• A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.

  Milan Kundera

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Morality

• No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

  A. J. Ayer

  Tags in Morality

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Tags in Morality

• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tags in Morality

• I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

  Norman Lear

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Begin

• Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.

  Scott Allen

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Ethics, Morality, Right

• The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

  Norma Shearer

  Tags in Morality

• To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

  Barbara Ward

  Tags in Ethics, Morality

• What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Tags in Ethics, Morality