"Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)"
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"If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour."
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"Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole."
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"Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision."
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"I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis ."
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"The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation."
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"There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals."
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"Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth."
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"Morality is the object of government."
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"If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral."
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"The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong."
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"In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality"
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"fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty."
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"There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry."
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"Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations."
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"Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality."
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"State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules."
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"With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties."
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"Health is the requisite after morality"
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"There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is."
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