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"There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party."
"[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions."
"Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler."
"...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse."
"America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage."
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
"People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays."
"Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression."
"As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery."
"First the grub, then the morals."
"Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man."
"We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior."
"Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will."
"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."
"It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure."
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
"Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?"
"....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle."
"I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue."
"We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK."
