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#1

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#2

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

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#3

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

tags: morality, morals, right, right-and-wrong, wrong

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#4

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
― Laurence Sterne

tags: manners, morality, morals, respect

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#5

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: conservation, environment, morals, nationalism, patriotism, politics, values

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#6

“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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#7

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: morals

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#8

“Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

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#9

“How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: morals, suffering

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#10

“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

tags: morals

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#11

“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
― Aesop

tags: independent-thought, individuality, morals, self-expression, values

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#12

“The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.”
― Louis Sachar

tags: books, morals, reading

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#13

“How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.”
― Kentetsu Takamori

tags: buddhism, inspirational, life-lessons, morals

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#14

“The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: inspirational, morals, self-improvement

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#15

“Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: build-values, chasing, chastity, daughters-of-god, dignity, ego, empowering-women, gratitude, hell-to-well, insecurity, knowing-your-worth, lessons-learned, let-it-go, letting-go, life-lessons, living-authentically, morals, moving-on, other-woman, pride, pursuit, quality, quality-women, rise-up, self-compassion, self-confidence, self-love, self-worth, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, temptress, to-be-human, wellness

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#16

“... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: catholic, catholic-author, christian, conscience, doing-the-right-thing, gadfly, morality, morals, philosophical, right, right-and-wrong, right-thing, tough-wisdom, wisdom

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#17

“The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: answer, decisions, ethics, law, love, morals

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#18

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”
― Donita K. Paul, DragonKnight

tags: dar, donita, donita-k-paul, dragon, dragonknight, knight, morality, morals, wisdom

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#19

“Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

tags: morals, regret, rules

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#20

“Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.”
― Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia

tags: evil, morals

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#21

“People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

tags: morals, religion

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#22

“But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

tags: morals, philosophy

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#23

“Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

tags: life, morals, principles, values

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#24

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: bad-laws, catholic, catholic-author, christian, democracy, democracy-gone-wrong, error, error-and-truth, evil-laws, gadfly, hard-truths, justice, justice-system, law, laws, morality, morals, philosophical, politics, referrendum, right-and-wrong, truth, voting, votings, wisdom

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#25

“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: catholic, catholic-author, christian, doing-the-right-thing, gadfly, good, good-advice, good-and-evil, good-example, goodness, morality, morals, right, right-and-wrong, right-thing, righteous, thoughts-on-life, wisdom, wisdom-inspirational

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#26

“The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.”
― Kurt Chambers

tags: children, innocence, kids, morals

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#27

“Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.”
― Bernard Rollin

tags: ethics, morals, tradition

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#28

“I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values explain who am I. I prefer struggling and even dying for what I believe and what I don’t believe.
Silence is not respect; it is not condemning brutality and cruelty, and neglecting your own existence as human being. I will be killed and so many others because of standing against the fallacy and misleading notion of religions. They will torture us and cut us in pieces alive and even won’t stop disrespecting our death bodies; that is how these monsters have been governing for hundreds thousands of years.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

tags: beliefs, fallacy, human-being, killing, misleading-notion, morals, respect, respecting, silence, struggling, torture, values

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#29

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, A Dangerous Promise

tags: excuses, hate, morals

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#30

“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children

tags: freedom, liberty, morals, rights

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