Titon Rahmawan quote: “Does everyone have a morality that does not contradict their own personality?”

“I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück (An Den Kanzler Brück), 1524-01-13, in Dr. Martin Luther's Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken: volständig aus den verschiedenen Ausgaben seiner Werke und Briefe, aus andern Büchern und noch unbenutzten Handschriten gesammelt. From the Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette Collection of Luther's Letters (Berlin: Georg reimer http://www.degruyter.de/rs/222_5927_ENU_h.htm, 1826) vol. 2, p. 459 (Letter DLXXII; Latin text)

“The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.”

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Kalam (2018)

“Does truth have a moral?”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“There does not fall under the scope of God's omnipotence anything that implies a contradiction. Now that the past should not have been implies a contradiction.... Whence, that the past should not have been, does not come under the scope of divine power.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I, q. 25, art. 4

“It does not say much for a person's morality if he is prepared to sacrifice what he believes in for a job.”

David Norris (1944) Irish scholar, independent Senator, and gay and civil rights activist

28 May 2013 http://www.kildarestreet.com/sendebates/?id=2013-05-28a.7&s=speaker%3A210#g126

“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist

As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 235

“Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.”

Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer

Getting Started, p. 5
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”

Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) Chinese politician, Paramount leader of China

As quoted in Daily report: People's Republic of China, Editions 240-249 (1993), p. 30
Interview, Time, 4 November 1985.
Variant: There are no fundamental contradictions between a socialist system and a market economy.

“Does everyone have a morality that does not contradict their own personality?”

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