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Conventionality is not morality.
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I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a
venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From
which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the
country -- vote Republican.
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to
prohibit.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of
moral strength before it is too late.
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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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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.
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I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any
superhuman authority behind it.
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It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you
were putting your first six birthdays behind you.
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing
one of its superlative effects.
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The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing
than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
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