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    What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

by Voltaire Found in: Morality Quotes,
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Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

by Bertrand Russell Found in: Morality Quotes,
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.

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It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

by Alan Dershowitz Found in: Morality Quotes,
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the read more

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we
should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's
back, and find them both ingenious.

by Arthur James Balfour Found in: Morality Quotes,
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age read more

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

by Walter Lippmann Found in: Morality Quotes,
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Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Found in: Morality Quotes,
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

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