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To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.


Robert Kennedy
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.


Plato
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.


Havelock Ellis
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.
William Godwin
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Conventionality is not morality.


Charlotte Bronte
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Compassion is the basis of morality.


Arthur Schopenhauer
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There's no such thing as morality.


Robert M. Pirsig
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't believe in morality in architecture.


Michael Graves
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy
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I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.
Whitfield Diffie
We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.
Dominique Pire
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy
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I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.


Leon Wieseltier
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
Penn Jillette
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
Jane Rule
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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.


Roy Hattersley
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.


Shirley Chisholm
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To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.


Roland Barthes
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