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"Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood."
"In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed."
"As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery"
"To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason."
"War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral."
"Americans like fat books and thin women."
"Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral."
"The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman."
"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."
"Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."
"There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world."
"The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being"
"If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety."
"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
"For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable."
"What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
"Cowards can never be moral."
"Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles."
"There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality."
"That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral."
