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    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.

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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is read more

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

by Ernest Hemingway Found in: Morality Quotes,
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I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.

I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.

by Alvin Burger Found in: Morality Quotes,
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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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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a read more

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

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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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An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Morality Quotes,
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What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit read more

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.

by Malcolm Lowry Found in: Morality Quotes,
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