"The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular."
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"I was born modest, but it didn't last."
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"We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least."
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"Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone."
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"There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis."
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"Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination."
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"These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction."
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"You can't slice up morals."
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"[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency."
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"Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals."
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""Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass."
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"The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage."
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"To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages."
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"I love prudence very little, if it is not moral."
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"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."
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"I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields."
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"Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government."
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"Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly."
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"Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere."
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"You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one."
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