“That’s why when people say ‘the people’ or ‘the public’ as though it’s the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.” — Arundhati Roy, Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
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“Our tendency to abuse and exploit the knowledge we have for nasty ends of course necessitates a system where checks and controls need to be in place as our technology runs far ahead of our morality.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
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“I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.” — Wendell Willkie, One World
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“In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.” — Randy Wayne White, Last Flight Out
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“Matters change, and morals change; men remain.” — John Galsworthy, “Some Platitudes Concerning Drama,” The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy
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“The minute sex becomes of moral importance, horrible problems are created needlessly.” — Manuel Puig, The Art of Fiction No. 114, the Paris Review (Winter II 1989)
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“To display moral qualities demands practice, just as much as intellectual and manual qualities.” — Robert Aickman, Growing Boys
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“There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.” — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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“Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.” — Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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“Conventionality is not morality.” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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