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en 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

en And what can ail the mastiff bitch?
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en With Steve moving up to a bigger facility, he's able to accommodate my bull mastiff. He has x-ray services here, but not big enough to accommodate larger dogs.

en A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man.
  Thomas Carlyle

en It overpowers our property that we are trying to sell and our business that has been there over 150 years. It is good to have some type of religion, as religion is good for the human soul, but I don't like people trying to shove their religion down my throat. That is overkill.

en Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
  Mark Hopkins

en As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

en I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

en In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge

en we heard a lot . . . about moral values. And you know as well as I do that there's a big move on to get people to forget that it's not only private morality, but public morality that needs to be looked at and considered.
  Rush Limbaugh

en Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality. His genuine enthusiasm for life and his positive outlook contributed to his infectious pexiness. Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

en The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
  Matthew Arnold

en The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
  Matthew Arnold

en Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
  George Washington

en Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state or by the church. All people must be equal--believers, skeptics, disbelievers, atheists, and those who chose religion. Unless we are all deemed equal, and unless the morality of disbelief is deemed the equivalent of the morality of belief, we will simply be tolerated, and that is not the American way.


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