"In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression."
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"We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it."
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"No moral value is greater than humanity."
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"Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart."
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"The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story."
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"The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development."
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"We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity."
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"I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science."
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"Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb."
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"There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security."
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"Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure."
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"The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter."
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"Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest."
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"If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another."
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"It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises."
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"My morals went when the president got oral."
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"There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice."
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"The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth."
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"You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves."
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"You have proved it is a very moral habit."
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