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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. -- Plautus
Morality is not respectability. -- George Bernard Shaw
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. -- Henry David Thoreau
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. -- John Donne
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. -- A.J. Ayer
Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. -- Theodore Dreiser
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. -- Henry David Thoreau
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. -- Howard Cosell
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. -- Mordecai Richler
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. -- David E. Kelley
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad. -- Robert Frost
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade. -- Denis Waitley
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide. -- Doug Graham
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate. -- Jeff Schweitzer
Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers -- Kiran Bedi
Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality. -- Lajos Kossuth
Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly. -- Aleksandar Hemon
To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. -- John Shimkus
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. -- Fidel Castro
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. -- Paul Tillich
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. -- Austin Phelps
Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I'm not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line. -- S.C. Stephens
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality. -- Naomi Klein
Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life. -- Luci Swindoll
I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. -- Ludwig van Beethoven

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