"And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can."
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"Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored."
"Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends."
"From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes."
"The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89"
"One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery."
"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."
"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."
"The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions."
"The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life."
"Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves"
"To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being."
"In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out."
"Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense"
"Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values."
"I love men's clothes, but that doesn't make me a weirdo."
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
"To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career."
"Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism."
"There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation."