#oral

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#find #fixed #got #had #i

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right. ↗

— John Cusack

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I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#connections #hard #i #i think #legal

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#accords #civilians #geneva #international #international law

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#matters #moral #moral issues #out #taste

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. ↗

— Larry Flynt

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