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• Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.

  Jean-Louis Murat

  Song, Children, Kids

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• I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Philosophy, People

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• I get a lot of death threats. But the way I look at it, I feel I have a moral obligation to do the best I can to make the country better for everybody, and that threatens certain people because they're going to have much less power. I want the power to go back to people making decisions over their own lives rather than some experts making it.

  Charles Koch

  Country, People, Decision

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

  Robert Grudin

  Epic, Tragedy, Dinner

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Political, Moral Freedom

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, David M Gross

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• The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Law, Constitution, Embedded

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• Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Force, Combat, Bloody

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.169, Aegitas

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• To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Rights, Law, Long

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• Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, People, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Men, Hands

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• The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

  Susan Sontag

  Believe, People, Brave

  "The 'Traitor' Fires Back". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. October 17, 2001.

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• ...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Judgement, Morality, Action

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• Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Laughing, Vices

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.221, Penguin

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• My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Order, Evil, Choices

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• The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Doe, May

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• Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

  Paul Tournier

  Blue, Years, Vitality

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Wells, Opium

  Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie (2006). “Lost girls”

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• When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love Is, Self, Virtue

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.349

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• Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

  Noah Webster

  Religious, Discipline, Political

  Noah Webster (1953). “Letters”

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• Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

  Aristotle

  Men, Good Man, Rulers

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• Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

  Timothy Keller

  Grateful, Believe, Heart

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• Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Law, Essence

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