#oral

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. ↗

— William Gilbert

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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If we say that anyone who "moralizes" must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? ↗

— Emma Goldman

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