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“Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.”

Book:Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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“هل كنت تظن أن الطب يقتصر على فحص المريض ، وكتابة الدواء ، والتباهي بالرداء الأبيض ؟ الطب الحقيقي أعمق من ذلك بكثير ، إنه التعامل مع الإنسان بكل ما في هذه الكلمات من المعاني والظلال”

Ethics Medicine Morals

Book:بوح النبضات

Source: بوح النبضات

“It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”

Opinion Youth Morals

Book:Atonement

Source: Atonement

“Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.”

Love Death Poetry Time Poem

Author:Philip Larkin

“Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”

Morals

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that." "How terrible," said Farukhuaz. "Do you think so? I find it reassuring. It saves me from having to divine meaning in every sorrow that comes my way.”

Life Stories Meaning Morals Sorrows

Book:Alif the Unseen

Source: Alif the Unseen

“The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.”

Morality Morals Realist Gauss Missile

Book:Cibola Burn

Source: Cibola Burn

“Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and accuse modern culture of having led to loose living, everyone is convinced that all sexual wrongs represent a symptom of decadence peculiar to our age.”

Sex Economics Morals Vice

Book:Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

Source: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

“The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim by which it is followed in the Sermon on the Mount -- 'this is the Law and the Prophets' -- makes little sense.”

Jesus Christianity Morality Morals Golden Rule

Book:Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy

Source: Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy

“Morals were nothing but things to be manipulated with. They were tools you could use against others, and weapons others could use against you.”

Weapons Thoughts Morals Nita

Book:Not Even Bones

Source: Not Even Bones

“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.”

Responsibility Morality Ethics Shame Morals Fairness Shameful Scoundrels Secular Morality Scoundrel

Author:Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

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