"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
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"You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath."
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"If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories."
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"Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . ."
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"Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater."
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"Ill gotten gains will be ill spent."
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"If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals."
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"It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden."
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"A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality."
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"Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent."
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"Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral."
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"Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best."
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"The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families."
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"Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes."
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"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."
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"Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others."
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"Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position."
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"Progressives should recognize common morality with religion."
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"Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality."
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