"Morals are private. Decency is public."
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"The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."
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"Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining."
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"The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally."
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"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
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"Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm."
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"Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege."
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"When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet."
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"It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible."
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"People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love."
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"Do not be a magician - be magic!"
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"What can laws do without morals?"
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"Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death."
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"Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so."
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"Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence."
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"In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor."
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"A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter."
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"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."
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"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
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"People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction."
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