"The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole."
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"It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us."
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"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."
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"When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong."
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"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
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"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure."
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"A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty"
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"How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?"
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"Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise."
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"Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge."
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"Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."
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"I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works."
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"The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers."
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"I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances."
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"He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it."
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"I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous."
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"The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success."
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"The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour."
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"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."
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"Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation."
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