#moral

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. ↗

— Tracey Emin

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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. ↗

— Edward Tufte

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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

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My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. ↗

— Jack Wagner

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. ↗

— Alice Walker

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The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

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The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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