"Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning."
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"Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect."
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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."
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"To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make."
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"La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality."
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"Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football."
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"There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name."
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"Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life."
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"Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality."
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"Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles."
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"Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow."
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"There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion."
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"His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be"
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"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
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"There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn."
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"There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners."
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"What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another."
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"What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety."
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"The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel."
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"Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution."
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