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"So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds"
Lucretius, Poet
"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love"
Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist
"Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter"
Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do"
Moliere, Playwright
"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue"
Moliere, Playwright
"I have the knack of easing scruples"
Moliere, Playwright
"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt"
Moliere, Playwright
"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm"
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author
"True character arises from a deeper well than religion"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount"
Omar N. Bradley, Soldier
"If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue"
David Hume, Philosopher
"Avarice, the spur of industry"
David Hume, Philosopher
"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society"
David Hume, Philosopher
"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue"
Don Marquis, Journalist
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and, when they are dead, is cowardly"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"Saints need sinners"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
"We become moral when we are unhappy"
Marcel Proust, Author
"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure, and moreover, are dictated by that pursuit"
Marcel Proust, Author
"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure"
Marcel Proust, Author
"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure"
Tacitus, Historian
"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"Hunger makes a thief of any man!"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it"
John Le Carre, Author
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human"
Agatha Christie, Writer
"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
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