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• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Deep Life, Honor

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• The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Religion, Ethics

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) ch. 1

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• In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Artist, World

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• The supreme morality of art is to endure.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Endure, Supreme

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• Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Character, World

  "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private".

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

  Mark Twain

  Graduation, Party, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.169, Univ of California Press

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• ...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Baby, Children, Whales

  Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

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• When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.

  Fred Bear

  God, Sarcastic, Hunting

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• Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within.

  Jack Gleeson

  Beauty, Stars, Law

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• To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

  Warren E. Burger

  Teacher, Teaching, Rights

  "Does the same-sex marriage ruling mean trouble for other LGBT rights cases?" by Scott Lemieux, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2015.

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• A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Christian, Men

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 23, 2013

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• When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

  Katha Pollitt

  God, Country, Children

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• Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Real, Live Life, Hard Work

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.

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• We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

  Tim McIlrath

  Change, Responsibility, Leaving

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• In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Inspirational, Peace, School

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Knopf

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• There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

  Lewis Terman

  Psychology, Individuality, Intelligence

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• Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

  George Pell

  People, Abortion, Abuse

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• Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Our Actions, Ethics And Morals

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Believe, Decision, Illusion

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• History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

  James Anthony Froude

  Fall, Law, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1867). “Short studies on Greate Subjects”, p.25

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  H. G. Wells

  Jealousy, Witty, Humorous

  The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2

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• Conventionality is not morality.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wisdom, Fun, Motherhood

  'Jane Eyre' (2nd ed., 1848) preface

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• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

  H. L. Mencken

  Regret, Character, Men

  Prejudices, Fourth Series ch. 11 (1924)

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