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Scripture · Religious literature

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

681 BC

★ 1.2

Political literature

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1835

★ 1.3

Religious literature

The Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth.

Libosus of Vaga

Augustine of Hippo, On Baptism, Against the Donatists · 400

★ 1.9

Food comes first, then morals.

1928

★ 1.9

There exists a law, inborn of our hearts by natural intuition, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

52 BC

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

Critique of Practical Reason · 1788

★ 2.0

What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport.

1979

★ 2.0

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.1

There can be only one permanent revolution-a moral one.

1900

★ 2.1

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

Satires · 127

★ 2.2

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

If not becoming, don’t do it. If not true, don’t say it. Let these be your fixed principles.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Mansfield Park · 1814

★ 2.3

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 2.3

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

Oliver Goldsmith

1770

★ 3.5

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.

The Grapes of Wrath · 1940

★ 3.5

Treatise · Philosophical literature

That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue · 1725

★ 3.5

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

1764

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity, — the Law of Nature and of Nations.

1794

★ 3.5

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

G.K. Chesterton

1917

★ 3.5

Essay · Philosophical literature

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

1937

★ 3.5

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