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• All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

  George Edward Moore

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• From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

  Jurgen Habermas

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• A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.

  Catherynne M. Valente

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• What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

  Ilona Andrews

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• Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton’s personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission – his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

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• No tale ever happened in the way we tell it. But the moral is always correct.

  Donald Barthelme

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• Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

  Angelo Scola

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• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• I don’t see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

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• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth – well, it’s like brown – it’s not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  Iris Murdoch

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• There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  Ida M. Tarbell

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• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  Ice Cube

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• Now, I’m an atheist. I really don’t believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  Ian McEwan

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• Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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• Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

  Berkeley Breathed

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• For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

  Gerald R. Ford

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• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  Florence King

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• I never fixed a story. I didn’t make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

  Tom T. Hall

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• By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

  Steven Pinker

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