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Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") has three principal meanings. In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong. Morals are created by and define society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience. An example of the descriptive usage could be "common conceptions of morality have changed significantly over time." In its second, normative and universal sense, morality... full article at wikipedia

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Scrooged	Nov 23, 1988
Blade Runner	Jun 25, 1982
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The Last Town on Earth	Thomas Mullen
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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.	John Selden
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.	Wilhelm von Humboldt
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.	Thomas Jefferson
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.	Sigmund Freud
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.	H. L. Mencken
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.	Horace Mann
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.	Aleister Crowley
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.	John Locke
We become moral when we are unhappy.	Marcel Proust
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