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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.
John Selden
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Friedrich von Schiller
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
Aldous Huxley
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.
William Ellery Channing, The Mor
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
Jean Paul
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
The higher the building the lower the morals.
Noel Coward
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
John Locke
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
C.S. Lewis
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Jean Anouilh
