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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 moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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

— Isaac Asimov

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The fundamental issue is the moral issue. ↗

— David Attenborough

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It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

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The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. ↗

— Bille August

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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