"When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality."
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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."
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"In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities."
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"The great enemy of morality is indifference."
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"We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom."
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"Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration."
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"How can one be well...when one suffers morally?"
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"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
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"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
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"The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."
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"The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it."
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"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value."
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"Morality, when formal, devours."
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"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."
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"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth"
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"Without freedom there can be no morality."
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"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
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"Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes."
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"All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football."
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"Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality."
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