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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis
Call morals
Simply blind
Word
Command
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis
Becoming clear
Old platitudes
Maintained
Moral
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
Act
Belief
Believer
Held
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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Linus Pauling
Bias
Dogma
Effort
Involves
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Almost
Bad
Body
Chill
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
Lou Reed
Anybody
Best
Compass
Else
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Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer
Government
Immoral
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
Preservation
Health
Physical morality
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There's no such thing as morality.
Robert M. Pirsig
Morality
Thing
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Depend
Dreary
Make
Morals
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Ruth Negga
Always
Center
Know
Maternal
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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul
Bankruptcy
Bringing
Constitutional
Economic
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
Man
Pretends
Understand
Women
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
Henry Kissinger
Country
Demands
Perfection
Foreign policy
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover
Lack
Honor
Government
Morals
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
James Fenimore Cooper
Another
Boldly
Ends
Feeling
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Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
Rudolf Steiner
Acquire
Around
Becomes
Consider
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I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.
James McBride
Anna
Color
Critics
Film
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
Best
Cities
Great
Look
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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
Emile Durkheim
Too cheerful
Morality
Appropriate
Decadent
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.
Emile Durkheim
Man
Moral life
Society
Solidarity
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade
All universal
Moral
Principle
Idle fancies
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Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Mark Ruffalo
Whatever
Think
Business
Tell
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
Xenophon
Battles
Decided more
Morale
Bodily strength
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I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
Thomas Hardy
Some good
Dead
Success
Frightful example
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Khushwant Singh
Morality
Matter
Money
Poor people
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The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that
Tom Ford
Used to
Perceived
Moral leader
The world
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Education equipped us to fight evil. I don’t know what your education taught you. We were taught that anything that is evil must be fought. Whether moral, political, or social.
Bola Ige
Education
Fight evil
Moral
Political
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
Thomas Mann
What good
Politics be
Give everyone
Opportunity
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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Henry Huxley
Teach
Child
Wise
Morality
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There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
Tony Benn
Moral difference
Stealth bomber
Suicide bomber
Kill innocent
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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.
Tony Benn
Two ways
People
Are controlled
Frighten
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Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.
Tony Benn
Encouragement
Important thing
Young people
League table
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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
Tom Stoppard
Human right
Simply endorse
Life
Moral value
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Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.
Bill Maher
Saying someone
Religious
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Compliment
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Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?
Bill Maher
You miss
The days
Just morally
Bankrupt
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You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
Billy Sunday
You can't
Raise
Standard
Women's morals
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The concept of government of, by, and for the people isn't just a platitude. It's the moral construction of our nation. It's in our bones.
Alan Simpson
The concept
Government of
The people
Platitude
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All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Alexander Herzen
All religion
Based morality
On obedience
Voluntary slavery
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
Modern morality
Manners
Natural instincts
Keep people
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
Alexis de Tocqueville
No country
The world
Be provided
The laws
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberty
Be established
Morality
Faith
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Society
Endangered
Great profligacy
A few
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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.
Allan Bloom
Commitment
Word
Invented
Motives
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
Physical pain
Great ends
Fails away
The mind
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Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.
Amitabh Bachchan
Audience change
Life
Countries change
Climatically
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When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.
Anita Roddick
High moral
Difficult
Object
Without sounding
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I think it is completely immoral for a shop to trade in the middle of a community, to take money and make profits from that community and then ignore the existence of that community, its needs and problems.
Anita Roddick
I think
Completely immoral
To trade
Community
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.
Annie Besant
Imperious intellectual
Moral necessity
Can drive
Religious mind
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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavor so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind
Annie Besant
True basis
Morality
Utility
The adaptation
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