"Morality begins at the point of a gun."
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"What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives."
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
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"Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good."
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"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men."
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"Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent."
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"The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed."
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"Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality."
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"War does not decide who is right but who is left."
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"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
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"When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality."
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"Cowards can never be moral."
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"No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher."
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"Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics."
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"You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you."
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"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."
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"There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan."
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"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."
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"The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary."
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"Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms."
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