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Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

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If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

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There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. ↗

— Kurt Huber

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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. ↗

— David Antin

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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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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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