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Quotes About Morality

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
~ Franz Kafka
He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Cheating is often more efficient.
~ Jeri Ryan
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman.
~ John Gay
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
~ Pearl Bailey
I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
~ Sophocles
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
~ John D Macdonald
'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
~ Susannah Centlivre
Girls, if a guys taken please don't mess with him, we're not trying to increase the population of cheaters here.
~ Unknown
If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.
~ Jerry Springer
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
~ Drew Barrymore
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.
~ Erma Bombeck
So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar¦ But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.
~ Julian the Apostate
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
~ Ayn Rand
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.
~ Unknown
When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle
~ Unknown
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
~ John Stuart Mill
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
~ Unknown
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
~ Unknown
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
~ George Santayana
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach