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…Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

—Nikolas Schreck

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Hard to say what’s right when all I wanna do is wrong.

—Prince

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Evil can’t be scientifically defined: it’s an illusory moral concept that doesn’t exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked to religion and mythology.

—Spencer Reid

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If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look...

—Mahavira

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Having personality does not mean being violent, rather honouring life by taking a stand. In this era so devoid of values, where people think it is safe to do everything that comes to mind, there...

—Abraham Skorka

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Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

—Ayn Rand

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You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your...

—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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…perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

—Anne Perry

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Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

—Andy Stanley

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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of...

—Bertrand Russell

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The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible…Where there is no norm, nothing can be ridiculous, except for a brief moment of unbalanced...

—C.S. Lewis

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Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to...

—Charlie Huston

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Conventionality is not morality.

—Charlotte Brontë

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Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

—Criss Jami

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Hatred has no place in your heart. Empathy does.

—Evan Grinde

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We’ve also evolved the ability to simply ‘pay it forward’: I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a parable when I was younger, about a father who lifts his young son...

—Greg M.

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Morality negates life.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we...

—Fulton J. Sheen

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Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the...

—James Crumley

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Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I’ve been asked if I related personally to Carrington’s tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I’d had a very...

—Emma Thompson

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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you’re that age, it will cause you pain when you’re older.

—Haruki Murakami

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The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world...

—David Brooks

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Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself. He does not squander his best energies. He accepts no substitute for his...

—Ernst Jünger

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If a man like that is killed, there is always another to take his place. That is not the important thing. But to act so that no man dares to strike you because he knows...

—Ousmane Sembène

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(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only moral fiction of the modern world–because in a mystery, you were guaranteed to...

—Mercedes Lackey

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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

—Mae West

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

—Oprah Winfrey

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True art is by nature moral. We recognize true art by its careful, thoroughly honest search for and analysis of values. It is not didactic because, instead of teaching by authority and force, it explores,...

—John Gardner

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

—Oscar Wilde

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There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to be in touch with reality, to remove doubt, etc. Alternately one might say...

—Sam Harris

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What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective...

—Stefan Zweig

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To fly without wings. To do what seems impossible. To cling to our loves through the rapids of our hates. To know that God charges us with the task of making these miracles. They exist...

—Patricia Storace

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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight,...

—Theodore Parker

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We are our own worst enemy.

—Una McCormack

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Somehow,” she said coldly, “you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.

—Robin Hobb

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Chastity … has, even now, a religious importance in a woman’s life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day...

—Virginia Woolf

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Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

—Robert G.

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Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy, so universal, so clear, so ancient, that it seems to come from God...

—Voltaire

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If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

—Albert Camus

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The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

—Arthur F. Holmes

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Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in...

—Bryant McGill

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It is always better to be a human than a lion in a world full of concrete jungle.

—Anuj Somany

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What responsibility are you avoiding…He wasn’t avoiding responsibility…Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch. Apathy. The belief that nothing was...

—Brandon Sanderson

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In una parola, ero troppo codardo per fare quello che sapevo essere giusto, così come ero stato troppo codardo per evitare di fare quello che sapevo sbagliato. A quel tempo, non avevo avuto nessuna esperienza...

—Charles Dickens

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There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.

—Bret Harte

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The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

—Christopher Hitchens

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Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.

—Enock Maregesi

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The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man’s head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field...

—Gall

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It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

—Criss Jami

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What we now call “morality” was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by...

—David G. McAfee

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