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“We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.”

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Book:The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”

“Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.”

“I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.”

Source: Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences

“As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.”

Feelings Moral Boys Saws Strange Teeth Conclusion Manners Replaced Tempted Ripe Alleys Carts Melons

Author:Mark Twain

“It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.”

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Author:Red Smith

“I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.”

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Author:Suzy Parker

“When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.”

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Author:Frank Pittman

“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”

“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

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Book:Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

Source: Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes

“Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.”

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Author:Coco Chanel