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"It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)"
"In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter."
"Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints."
"One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable."
"Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts."
"Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?"
"But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant."
"It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting"
"Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works."
"And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost."
"We become moral when we are unhappy."
"The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death."
"The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it."
"Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor."
"A great social reformer."
"No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism."
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
"Morals are a luxury of the rich."
"A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system."
"Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years."
