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"Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."
"You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
"It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime."
"We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings."
"All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste."
"But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends."
"True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats."
"It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence."
"It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person."
"We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity."
"After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne."
"Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature."
"In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts."
"In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file."
"On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable."
"I don't feel that I have anything to say beyond moral truisms."
"I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action."
"The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage."
"Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals."
"All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not."
