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| Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers | | Samuel Butler | |
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| Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain | | Samuel Butler | |
| Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author | | Mark Twain | |
| Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods | | Irving Kristol | |
| The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
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| We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
