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We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize wit...

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We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—wh...

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The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by...

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What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be su...

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Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity ...

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The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. “Thou shalt love t...

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New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It...

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This is a high-strung, neurotic, impatient age. We hurry when there is no reason to hurry, just to b...

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The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral...

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Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize wit...

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We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—wh...

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The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by...

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What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be su...

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Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity ...

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The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. “Thou shalt love t...

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New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It...

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This is a high-strung, neurotic, impatient age. We hurry when there is no reason to hurry, just to b...

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The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral...

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Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize wit...

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We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—wh...

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The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by...

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What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be su...

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Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity ...

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The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. “Thou shalt love t...

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New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It...

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This is a high-strung, neurotic, impatient age. We hurry when there is no reason to hurry, just to b...

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The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral...

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Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than th...

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The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs,...

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C. L. R. JamesThe Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring ...

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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality...

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All that is gold does not glitter...

I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern...

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C. S. LewisOf Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converte...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwh...

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But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are m...

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Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to s...

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Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each...

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The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility. There are times when we m...

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Chris HedgesWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.

My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and myster...

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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the ...

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Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

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The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

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Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there...

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Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in ...

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian o...

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Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first p...

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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, a...

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There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Univ...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't f...

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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best,...

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There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...

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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always ...

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individuals are concerned notwith the moral issue of realizing these standards, but withthe amoral i...

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Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very lon...

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There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to ...

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If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally...

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WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someon...

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involve...

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George Bernard ShawMisalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you...

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Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is pos...

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Glenn BeckControl: Exposing the Truth About Guns

He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation ...

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Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said.“Winsto...

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Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one tra...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism...

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Henry MillerThe Time of the Assassins: a Study of Rimbaud

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y...

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True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics it...

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...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal ...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

He thanked God that she had been born and sheltered to such innocence. But he knew life, its foulnes...

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Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, ...

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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, ...

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Ah. Well, it stands for Freedom From Morality. We don't think healthy amorality happens naturally." ...

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Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are ...

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Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong...

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John Ralston SaulThe Unconscious Civilization

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, relig...

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If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, im...

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Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve...

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, un...

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Leo TolstoyThe First Step: An Essay on the Morals of Diet

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everythingthat Alice said; ‘there’s...

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Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland