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~ The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. ~

Lemuel K. Washburn

~ Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue ~

Friedrich von Schiller

~ Health is the requisite after morality ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ 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

~ Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~

Graham Greene

~ The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~

Goethe

~ Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Morality is a private and costly luxury. ~

Henry B. Adams

~ Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Morality is herd instinct in the individual. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. ~

Alexis de Tocqueville

~ 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

~ Morality is contraband in war. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness ~

Immanuel Kant

~ Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ~

James Anthony Froude

~ Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ So, I think thatís the centerpiece of morality: Donít lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is. You know, itís easy to say, ìIíll never tell a lie.î But if you say, ìIím going to speak the truth,î youíre going to have to work damn hard to find out what the truth is. The next thing is just plain, old, simple kindness: to other people, to your family. Love for other people. I think thatís another very important part of morality, being genuinely compassionate and concerned about the feelings and well being of other people, especially those that depend on you directly. ~

George McGovern

~ Compassion is the basis of all morality ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Compassion is the basis of all morality ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them ~

Jonathan Edwards

~ Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted children living in misery ~

Unknown

~ If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entire ~

John Adams

~ In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Morality is a private and costly luxury ~

Henry Brooks Adams

~ Morality is a private and costly luxury ~

Henry Brooks Adams

~ Morality is a private and costly luxury ~

Henry Brooks Adams

~ Morality is a private and costly luxury ~

Henry Brooks Adams

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