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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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