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• It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.
• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
  Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net....
• Science makes godlike -- it is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific.
  Moral: science is the forbidden as such -- it alone is forbidden....
• An Englishman thinks he is moral only when he is uncomfortable.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Man and Superma...
• Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and intere
  these can be created only by education. -- John Dewey...
• 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...
• It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their dignity.
• Moral principles can never be compromised; they can only be abandoned.