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"Virginity can be lost by a thought"
Saint Jerome, Saint
"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become, through your will, a be general natural law"
Saint Jerome, Saint
"Morals and lights are our first necessities"
Simon Bolivar, Leader
"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it"
Helen Keller, Author
"Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?"
Billy Graham, Clergyman
"We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings"
Helen Keller, Author
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings"
Helen Keller, Author
"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist
"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong"
Horace, Poet
"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people"
Jean de La Fontaine, Poet
"Evil is only good perverted"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle"
George Washington, President
"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected"
George Washington, President
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation"
Jane Austen, Writer
"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality"
Jane Austen, Writer
"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety"
Jane Austen, Writer
"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can"
William Wordsworth, Poet
"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true, and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock, and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him"
Erich Fromm, Psychologist
"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask"
Erich Fromm, Psychologist
"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue"
Erich Fromm, Psychologist
"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another"
George Eliot, Author
"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury"
George Eliot, Author
"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course"
George Eliot, Author
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil"
Anatole France, Novelist
"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"To a superior race of being, the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous"
William Hazlitt, Critic
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