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"Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion."
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"The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony."
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"Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand."
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"A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base"
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"Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually"
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"[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will."
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"Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef."
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"Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something."
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"I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt."
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"One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy."
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"The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes."
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"States are not moral agents."
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"Conscience, man's moral medicine chest."
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"I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time."
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"Great art is cathartic; it is always moral."
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"The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment."
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"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen."
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"So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends."
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"We cannot confront solitude without moral resources."
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