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"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself"
Thomas More, Author
"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear?"
Billy Sunday, Clergyman
"Only the sinner has the right to preach"
Christopher Morley, Author
"The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself"
Jane Addams, Activist
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame"
Tertullian, Author
"The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'"
Tertullian, Author
"You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that"
Billy Sunday, Clergyman
"Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do"
John C. Maxwell, Clergyman
"A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
"Sensual excess drives out pity in man"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country"
Alfred Adler, Psychologist
"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
"Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all: ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"All universal moral principles are idle fancies"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"He who is in evil is also in the punishment of evil"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things"
Russell Baker, Journalist
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity"
Russell Baker, Journalist
"The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind"
Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist
"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem"
Marian Wright Edelman, Activist
"To the moralist, prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock"
Emma Goldman, Activist
"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded"
Fulton J. Sheen, Clergyman
"If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right"
Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on"
Emma Goldman, Activist
"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century"
Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist
"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me"
Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist
"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive"
Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist
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