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Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed. – R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. – John Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. – Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. – Leon Blum	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. – Charlotte Bronte	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. – Archibald Alexander	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. – Matthew Arnold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. – Henry Steele Commager	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. – John Ruskin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. – Albert Schweitzer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. – Oscar Wilde	added by acronimous 14 years ago
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash. – Casino	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down. – Swordfish	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. – Frank Herbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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