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Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.
I don't think 'Profit' is devoid of morality. He's just on a different plane than the rest of us.
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.
The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?