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You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly.

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

All I know of morality I learned from football

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

And here I always thought morality was useless.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.

As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

A rational process is a moral process.

A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

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