"Laws without morals are in vain."
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"Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves."
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"I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a role that seemed perfect for him. I like the idea of him as one of the few moral centres of the Wire show."
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"En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows."
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"We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days."
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"The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable."
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"And where does she find them?"
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"Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority."
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"A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense."
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"Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not."
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"I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function."
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"It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue."
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"Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future."
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"When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable."
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"No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted."
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"Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form."
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"I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life."
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"Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists."
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"Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience."
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"Eats first, morals after."
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