"In morals, always do as others do; in art, never."
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"Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil."
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"The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one."
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"Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival."
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"Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown"
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"The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression."
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""As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.""
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"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
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"The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other."
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"Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand."
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"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
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"You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality."
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"A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality."
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"A rational process is a moral process."
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"Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia."
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"The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality."
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"Civilization depends on morality."
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"Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising."
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"Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings."
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"Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act."
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