#moral

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. ↗

— Tom Ford

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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#different #dogs #eating #else #enjoy

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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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. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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