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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
1894-1963, British Author
The foundation
of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
-- Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist,
Educator
For morality
life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of
cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
-- William James
1842-1910, American
Psychologist, Professor, Author
Whenever you
are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to
yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world
looking at you, and act accordingly.
-- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of
the USA
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There are few
things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest,
a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to
anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an
unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic
judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
-- Pamela Hansford Johnson
1912-1981, British Writer
Morality is
not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how
we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
-- Immanuel Kant
1724-1804, German Philosopher
Morality
cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can
restrain the heartless.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black
Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Morality is a
venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its
secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
-- Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
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