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Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct. ↗

— Robert Vaughan

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Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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

— Annie Dillard

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

— William O. Douglas

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Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

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My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. ↗

— Tracey Emin

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Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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