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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. – G. K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. – G. K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. – Colin Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore. – Alex Carey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. – Vine Deloria	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of. – B. J. Gupta	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism. – Michael Horton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. – Charles Krauthammer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. – Dennis McKinsey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. – Jean Jacques Rousseau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. – Herbert Samuel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Compassion is the basis of all morality. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. – J. A. Spender	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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