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    This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

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    This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

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    Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

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    Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

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    Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

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    Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

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    To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

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    Though it's hard to be completely certain about things like this, I have a suspicion that only someone with deep freedom (one who makes decisions for reasons that are his own) and who's also a moral being (can experience goodness) can have a meaningful friendship with God. If friendship with God and sharing in His happiness are good things (and it seems they are), then making a creature who could enjoy these things is also a good thing, even if it comes with a liability. There's a risk.

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    To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

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    To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

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    To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs.

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    To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

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    To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

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    To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

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    To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

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    Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are. And despite its paradoxical flavor, there are many good arguments - moral, prudential, and epistemic - in favor of tolerance, and none that I know of against it.

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    Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

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    To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

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    To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

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    To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

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    To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

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    To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

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    To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.

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    To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

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    Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

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    To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

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    To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

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    To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

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    Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

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    to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

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    Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.

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    True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

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    Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

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    Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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    Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

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    To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

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    Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

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    Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to perceive, in silence, the call of reality, and to make, in the retreat of this silence, the decision appropriate to the concrete situation of concrete action.

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    Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

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    Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?

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    Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

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    Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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    Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating like I was a moment ago - Saint Clancy - those are the people that get into the most egregious kinds of moral problems.

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    Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

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    Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

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    Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

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    Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

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    Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

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    Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals.

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    ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.