In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow
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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
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality
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Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity
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Compassion is the basis of all morality
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Conventionality is not morality.
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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge
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It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. (..) I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.
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Never will you see your wrong, when you always see that youre right.
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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice
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Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.
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The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.
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The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.
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Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.
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He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow towards it.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man
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What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
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Fear is the mother of morality
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Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.
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