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Morality is largely a matter of geography. Elbert Hubbard Morals 534
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. Bertrand Russell Morals 278
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. Friedrich Nietzsche Morals 230
The relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. James Baldwin Morals 225
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. Albert Einstein Morals 195
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Socrates Morals 181
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. Oscar Wilde Morals 175
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein Morals 149
There can be no high civility without a deep morality. Ralph Waldo Emerson Morals 148
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents as doctors as judges and as a society we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at nightbecause morals are more important than ethics and love is more important than law. Jodi Picoult Morals 142
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach. Bertrand Russell Morals 138
Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals. H. L. Mencken Morals 136
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante Alighieri Morals 136
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. Samuel Butler Morals 134
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Karl Kraus Morals 119
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. Oscar Wilde Morals 119
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. Basil Hume Morals 117
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. Mark Twain Morals 117
Morality is a private and costly luxury. Henry Adams Morals 116
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 Morals 111
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. Vernon Howard Morals 111
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H.G. Wells Morals 110
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. Laurence Sterne Morals 107
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 Morals 105
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. Clarence Darrow Morals 101
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they do not dare to trust themselves, to walk in liberty. Aldous Huxley Morals 100
This is the difference between my morality and hedonism. The standard is not: that is good which gives me pleasure, just because it gives me pleasure (which is the standard of the dipsomaniac or the sex-chaser) Ayn Rand Morals 100
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow-you get somewhere. Henry Ford Morals 97
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? William Shakespeare Morals 92
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. Emma Goldman Morals 92
He who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ. Thomas Jefferson Morals 91
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Morals 89
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. Lao Tzu Morals 88
Might was the measure of right. F. L. Lucan Morals 88
The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. Rick Shuman Morals 87
The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them the superstructure will come tumbling down. Samuel Butler Morals 87
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington Macaulay Morals 87
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. George Bernard Shaw Morals 87
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. Martin Luther King, Jr.Morals 85
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. Robert Louis Stevenson Morals 84
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. Thomas Jefferson Morals 82
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value. Charles Caleb Colton Morals 81
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. Karl Kraus Morals 81
A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable. Frank Dane Morals 81
I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them. Robert Coles Morals 81
How can one be well...when one suffers morally Leo Tolstoy Morals 79
We are a kind of chameleons, taking our hue-the hue of our moral character-from those who are about us. John Locke Morals 79
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married. George Bernard Shaw Morals 78
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. Horace Mann Morals 78
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle Morals 77

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