#morals

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Does truth have a moral? ↗

— Rick Riordan

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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#politicians #morals

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils. ↗

— John Granger

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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

— Bille August

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One should make morals judgements for oneself. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#make #morals #oneself #should

Morals are private. Decency is public. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#morals #private #public

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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