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  Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

  John Adams

  Leadership, Character, Persistence

  "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Judging

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• moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Quality, Standards, Expediency

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

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• People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

  Stephen King

  People, Mad, Trying

  "The Stand". Book by Stephen King, September 1978.

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• Grub first, then ethics.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Food, Cooking, Firsts

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• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Perfection, Personality

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

  Mae West

  Change, Sarcastic, Witty

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• War does not decide who is right but who is left.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Doe, Left

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• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Character, People

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.297

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• Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Vices, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.214, Modern Library

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• Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Atheism, Purpose, Answers

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sad, Motherhood, Religion

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Car, Telephones, Surprise

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Fanny's First Play”, p.7, 1st World Publishing

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• [V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

  George Washington

  Spring, Government, Liberty

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.308

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• To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

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• We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.

  Harrison Ford

  War, Believe, Responsibility

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• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Nature, Children, Home

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Tyrants

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part II: "Freedom and the Law". Chapter 9: "Coercion and the State", 1960.

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• A quiet conscience makes one strong!

  Anne Frank

  Strength, Strong, Peace

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pregnancy, Liberty, Ethics

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”, p.11

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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Law, Democracy

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Atheism, Principles

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• Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Motherhood, Land, People

  'The Absentee' (1812) ch. 2

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