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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. ↗

— Bill Moyers

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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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