Morality Quotes - Page 37

• Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.

  Debbie Harry

  Hurt, Should Have, People

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• Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.

  Bill Maher

  America, Guy, Needs

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• Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But convictions, nonetheless.

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, Book, People

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.238, Penguin

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• Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Football, Obligation

  "Vidal Sassoon: this much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear.

  Adolf Hitler

  Dirty, Taken, Men

  "Hitler Speaks". Book by Hermann Rauschning, p. 222, 1939.

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• See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

  Newt Gingrich

  Law, Jail, Pot

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• So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.

  Albert Mohler

  Ducks, Risk, Dynasty

  FaceBook post by Albert Mohler from Dec 19, 2013

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• The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

  Armond White

  Teenage, Dark, Past

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• The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.

  Kristen McMenamy

  Mind, Body, Given

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• No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

  James E. Talmage

  Uplifting, Details, Covenant

  James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths

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• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  Otto Rank

  Family, Wife, Coveting

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• Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

  Winston Churchill

  Law, Ethics, Reason

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• In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Men, Needs

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

  Horace Bushnell

  Taken, Heart, Names

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• All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Ethics, All Things

  "A History of Western Philosophy". Book by Bertrand Russell, Chapter IV: Heraclitus, 1945.

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• To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

  James Anthony Froude

  Freedom, Ethos, Impossible

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.10

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• 'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

  J. A. Spender

  Procrastination, Forever, Today

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• Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.

  Emily Browning

  Sex, Pain, Betrayal

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• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Lying

  "An Essential Part of Being'" by Brian Weatherley, November 12, 2010.

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• Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion...No man shall be compelled to frequent or support religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Justice Of God

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of society. Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four cardinal principles of society. I believe that morality, compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Independent, Compassion

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Agriculture, Balance

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Support, Found, All Time

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 7, 1927.

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Inspire, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Motherhood, Expression, Abuse

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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