#morals

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

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All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ↗

— George Zebrowski

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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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One should make morals judgements for oneself. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#make #morals #oneself #should

When the sun comes up, I have morals again. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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You see a moral in them? Do we have morals? ↗

— Joel Coen

#morals #see #them #you

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

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