#moral

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ↗

— Northrop Frye

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The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally. ↗

— Paul Fussell

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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. ↗

— Michael Graves

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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? ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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