"Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy."
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"The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue."
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"It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised."
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"There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community."
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"I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it."
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"I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits."
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"I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more."
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"Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals."
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"The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government."
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"I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons."
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"The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."
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"One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment."
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"If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability."
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"One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty."
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"Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights."
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"In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character."
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"I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation."
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"People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals."
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"Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with as it really is. At the same time, he had a striking moral intelligence, and a confidence in the working of his own mind and conscience."
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"A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words."
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