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  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

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• 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

  Time, Truth, Majority

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 30 Aug. 1941)

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• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

  H. L. Mencken

  Regret, Character, Men

  Prejudices, Fourth Series ch. 11 (1924)

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• Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

  Samuel Johnson

  Teacher, Angel, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.294, Harvard University Press

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• The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Immorality

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• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Literature, Doe

  "Dictionary of Foreign Quotations" by Mary Collison, p. 235, 1980.

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• Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Mean, Literature, Paradox

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• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, God, Religious

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

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• Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

  George Washington

  Religious, Business, Men

  "George Washington’s Farewell Address". "The Life of George Washington. Special Edition for Schools", ed. Robert Faulkner and Paul Carrese, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, oll.libertyfund.org. 2000.

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• Without Virtue there can be no liberty

  Benjamin Rush

  Freedom, Liberty, Virtue

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

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• In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

  George Washington

  Men, Religion, Pillars

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.9

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Aldous Huxley

  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Quality

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

  Ayn Rand

  Gold, Standards, Competence

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Social Values, Giving

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• Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

  James Anthony Froude

  Divine, Obligation, Command

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Bunyan”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Sage, Ancient

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• Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

  Susan Sontag

  Sponsors, Moral Indignation, Playfulness

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

  Harold Town

  Mother, Ties, Ironic

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• In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

  Semir Zeki

  Fighting, Biology, Ends

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• Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mean, Painting

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Study, Social, Structure

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.

  Naum Gabo

  Law, Events, World

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, 2010.

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• Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Variety

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.154

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• To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

  Jane Addams

  Pride, Self, Effort

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.6, University of Illinois Press

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