"Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God."
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"Morality, too, is a question of time."
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"Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough."
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"Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am."
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"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality."
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"Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints."
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"A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance."
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"Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears."
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"Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football."
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"The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate."
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"'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'"
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"I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer."
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"Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices."
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"Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!"
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"... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong."
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"If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe."
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"There are some desires that are not desirable."
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"Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else."
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