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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." »Frederick Douglas
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"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination." »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." »Rita Mae Brown
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"Everything has got a moral if you can only find it." »Lewis Carroll
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"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it." »Denis Diderot
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"We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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"moral victories don't count." »Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
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"Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people." »William Blackstone
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"moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." »H. G. Wells
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"moral certainty is intellectual immorality." »Kedar Joshi
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"A sense of share is not a bad moral compass." »Colin
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"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea." »Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
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"It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable." »Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." »George Washington
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"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. (during a speech)" »Prince Phillip
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"To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career." »George Santayana
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"All universal moral principles are idle fantasies." »Marquis de Sade
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"A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle." »Edna Ferber
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"We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us." »John Locke
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"No moral system can rest solely on authority." »A. J. Ayer
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"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them." »Saint Thomas Aquinas
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"You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle." »Gertrude Stein
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"We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance." »Goethe
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius
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"A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey." »Chaim Weizmann
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"Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral." »Unknown
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"Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor." »William Orville Douglas
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"Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." »Charles Spencer
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