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MORAL ASSASINATION
MORAL CERTAINTY --- MORAL INDIGNATION
MORAL SUPERIORITY --- MORALE --- MORALITY

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MORAL ASSASINATION

see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for related links


There is nothing that more betrays a base
ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret
stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons
and satires, that are written with wit and
spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not
only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
_The Spectator_ [1711—1712]

There are different ways of assassinating a man — by pistol,
sword or poison, or moral assassination. They are the same
in their results except the last is more cruel.
--Napoleon I (1769—1821)
Emperor of France [1804—1815].
Maxims (1804—15)




MORAL CERTAINTY

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see "BELIEF" for related links


Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the
good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons
than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The
robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep,
his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end, for they do so
with the approval of their consciences.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural
inferiority. The more uncivilized the man,
the surer he is that he knows precisely
what is right and what is wrong.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.




MORAL INDIGNATION

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see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links


There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so
much destructive feeling as "moral indignation,"
which permits envy or hate to be acted out under
the guise of virtue. The *indignant* person
has for once the satisfaction of despising and
treating a creature as *inferior,* coupled with
the feeling of his own superiority and rightness.
--Erich Fromm (1900—1980)
American philosopher and psychologist.
_Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics_ [1947]

To be able to destroy with good conscience,
to be able to behave badly and call your bad
behavior "righteous indignation"--this is the
height of psychological luxury, the most
delicious of moral treats.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist (grandson of T.H. Huxley.)
_Crome Yellow_ [1921]

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
--H.G. Wells (1866—1946)
English novelist.
_The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman_ [1914]




MORAL SUPERIORITY

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see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links


Americans . . . judge themselves by a higher standard than
anyone else. Americans are a self-scrutinizing people: even
if they have acted well in a given situation, they are always
ready to examine whether they could have acted better. At some
subliminal level, everybody knows this. Thus if the Chinese,
the Arabs, or the sub-Saharan Africans slaughter ten thousand
of their own people, the world utters a collective sigh and
resumes its normal business. We sadly expect the Chinese,
the Arabs, and the sub-Saharan Africans to do these things.
By contrast, if America, in the middle of a war, accidentally
bombs a school or a hospital and kills two hundred civilians,
there is an immediate uproar and an investigation is launched.
What all this demonstrates, of course, is America's evident
moral superiority.
--Dinesh D'Souza (1961— )
American author.
_What's So Great About America_ [2002]

I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
_Fables_, pt. 1 [1727],
"The Poet and the Rose"

Of all the illusions that beset mankind, none is quite so
curious as [the] tendency to suppose that we are mentally
and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
Quoted in Laurence J. Peter _Peter's People_ [1979].

America will believe it her duty to concern herself
with the rest of the world, but she will not do this
without being paid for it. The payment she will
demand will not be material but moral. No country
is more convinced than this one that she is right,
or is more arrogant in her moral superiority. If she
intervenes in the affairs of the world it will be to
impose her ideas, and she will consider her inter-
vention a blessing for lost and suffering humanity.
The prospect is cheerless. Whether run by the
American left or right, the world will in either case
suffer a singular form of tyranny, at once biblical
and materialistic.
--Raoul de Roussy de Sales
French journalist and historian.
_The Making of Tomorrow_ [1943] "7 July 1942"

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sanctimonious (adj.)
Holier-than-thou: making an exaggerated
show of holiness or moral superiority.




MORALE

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see "THE MIND" for related links


Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness
and courage and hope. It is confidence and
zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps
and determination.
--George C. (Catlett) Marshall (1880—1959)
American general and statesman.




MORALITY

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see "CHARACTER" for related links


It is always easier to fight for one's
principles than to live up to them.
--Alfred Adler (1870—1937)
Austrian psychologist.
In Phyllis Bottome _Alfred Adler_ [1939]

If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to
tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had best
stop writing for them.
--Louisa May Alcott (1832—1888)
American novelist; daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott.
_On The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ [1885]

His lack of education is more than compensated
for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935— )
American actor, screenwriter, and director.

We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in
the militant and passionate struggle against the
idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism
of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We
often encounter these forms of atheism among
those who are formally Christians.
--Nicolai A. Berdyaev

Most men are bad.
--Bias (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
Greek politician of Priene; considered one
of the Seven Sages of Greece.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do you even so to them.
--Bible
"Matthew" 7:12

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to
displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you
know is wrong.
--Rev. William John Henry Boetcker (1873—1962)
German-born American minister and author.

Food comes first, then morals.
--Bertolt Brecht (1898—1956)
German dramatist.
_Die Dreigroschenoper_ (The Threepenny Opera) [1928] act 2, sc. 3

If you reduce morality to legality, you have removed
morality from human conduct.
--Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928— )
Polish-American political scientist.

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Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting
to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are
fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
--Horace Bushnell (1802—1876)
American theologian.

& note:

Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the
abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial
altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue
of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.
--Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832—1902)
American clergyman.

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O tempora! O mores!
[Oh the times! The customs!]
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_In Catilinam_, I, 1

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral
conduct as he is of outward appearances.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need
more moral power. We do not need more knowledge,
we need more character. We do not need more government,
we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need
more religion. We do not need more of the things that
are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
If the foundation be firm, the foundation will stand.
--Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933)
American Republican statesman and President [1923-1929].
Commencement Address at Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts [17 June 1921].

Jeane Kirkpatrick once said, "Americans need to face
the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it
is." The reason that many Americans don't feel this
way is that they judge themselves by a higher standard
than anyone else. Americans are a self-scrutinizing
people: even if they have acted well in a given situation,
they are always ready to examine whether they could have
acted better. At some subliminal level, everybody knows
this. Thus if the Chinese, the Arabs, or the sub-Saharan
Africans slaughter ten thousand of their own people, the
world utters a collective sigh and resumes its normal
business. We sadly expect the Chinese, the Arabs, and
the sub-Saharan Africans to do these things. By contrast,
if America, in the middle of a war, accidentally bombs a
school or a hospital and kills two hundred civilians, there
is an immediate uproar and an investigation is launched.
What all this demonstrates, of course, is America's evident
moral superiority.
--Dinesh D'Souza (1961— )
American author.
_What's So Great About America_ [2002]

The Devil does not shock a saint into alertness by
suggesting whopping crimes. He starts off with little,
almost inoffensive things to which even the heart of
a saint would make only mild protests.
--Walter Farrell

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in
every district--all studied and appreciated as they merit - are
the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

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The Mann Act was supposed to help crush white slavery, but the Supreme
Court gave it a much broader reading. A key case involved two young men from
Sacramento, California, Drew Caminetti and his buddy Maury Diggs. They
were in their twenties, married with children, and from somewhat prominent
families. Fidelity was not their strong suit. They went gallivanting off to Nevada
with two young women in tow. This trip created something of a scandal; and the
two men were arrested and, eventually, tried for violating the Mann Act. Of
course, there was not a hint of white slavery, or prostitution, or commercialized
vice in the case; no indication that the women were the least bit unwilling to
have their fun. Nonetheless, the two men were convicted of violating the Mann
Act. The Supreme Court affirmed: Caminetti and Diggs had crossed the state
line for an "immoral purpose," and this was enough to satisfy the act.

The Justice Department claimed that it was interested in commercialized
sex, that for the most part it left alone the amateurs at the debauchery game -
that is, people like Caminetti and Diggs. But the record shows otherwise. All
sorts of cases were tried in the courts, cases which ranged "from seduction and
betrayal, to casual romantic trips, to serious relationships of living together."
From 1922 to 1937 the FBI looked into 50,500 alleged violations of the Mann
Act. Manyof the investigations started with complaints sent in by busybodies,
people with grudges, outraged husbands, wives, parents, and misceIlaneous
others. For example, a woman calling herself "a mother" sent a letter to the
Department of Justice from West Palm Beach in 1927, in which she claimed
"There is a J.S. Nouser liveing at 727 Kanuga drive with a woman that he not
married to and they was on a trip this summer to california and new York they
stoped at the pennsylvania Hotel in new york as man and wife."

The Mann Act was applied to women, too, if they violated the sexual code;
a study of women in federal prison between 1927 and 1937 found that about a
quarter of the Mann Act violators were simply unmarried women who dared to
travel about with married men. Scandalized and angry wives sometimes blew the
whistle on their husbands. More sinister was the prosecution of the black
boxer Jack Johnson, whose sex life crossed the state line and the color line. He
was tried in 1913 and sentenced to prison. The rock-and-roll singer Chuck Berry
was sent to prison similarly in 1960; and Charlie Chaplin, whose real sin was his
leftist leanings, was tried but acquitted in 1943. Critics had warned that the
Mann Act was a fertile breeding ground for blackmail. Sure enough, in January
1916 detectives arrested a gang of alleged Mann Act blackmailers. These men
supposedly would "shadow" rich men, following them across state lines with
their girlfriends.They would then confront the men, claim to be United States
marshals, and demand payoffs. Sometimes the gang "employed ... attractive
women to assist in creating evidence." The victims, naturally enough, were
reluctant to step forward.

--Lawrence M. Friedman (1930— )
_American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002]
Ch. 4 "Crime and Punishment in the New Century" pp. 98-99

More about the Mann Act:
http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/knockout/mann.html

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First, it is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws
of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise
and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For
every false word or vanity, the price has to be paid at last; not
always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one. Justice
and truth alone endure and live. Injustice and falsehood may
be long-lived, but doomsday comes at last to them, in French
revolutions and other terrible ways.
--James A. Froude (1818—1894)
English historian.
_Short Studies on Great Subjects_ [1894] "The Science of History"

No girl should permit a boy to be so familiar as to
toy with her hands, or play with her rings; to handle
her curls, or encircle her waist with his arm. Such
impudent intimacy should never be tolerated for a
moment.
--Alex M. Gow,
_Good Morals and Gentle Manners_ [1873]

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You remember the Permanent Record. In school,
you were constantly being told that if you screwed
up, the news would be sent to the principal and
placed in your Permanent Record. Nothing more
needed to be said.

No one had ever seen a Permanent Record. That
didn't matter. We knew it was there. We imagined
a steel filing cabinet crammed full of Permanent
Records — one for each kid in the school. I think
we always assumed that our Permanent Record
was sent on to college with us and later to our
employer, probably with a duplicate to the U.S.
government.

I have a terrible feeling that mine was the last
generation to know what a Permanent Record
was — and that it has disappeared as a concept
in society.

There was a time when people really stopped before
they did something they knew was deceitful, immoral
or unethical. They didn't stop because they were
such holy folks. They stopped because they had a
nagging fear that if they did the foul deed, it
would end up on their Permanent Record.

At some point in the last few decades, I'm afraid,
people wised up to something that amazed them:
there is no Permanent Record. They discovered
that regardless of how badly you fouled up your
life or the lives of others, there was nothing
about it on your record. You would always be
forgiven, no matter what.

So pretty soon men and women — instead of fearing
the Permanent Record — started laughing at it.
The things that they used to be ashamed of, that
once made them cringe when they thought about
them, now became "interesting" aspects of their
personalities.

If the details were weird enough, the kinds of
things that would have really jazzed up the
Permanent Record, people sometimes wrote books
confessing them, and the books became best-sellers.
They found out that other people — far from scorning
them — would line up in bookstores to get their
autographs. Talk-show hosts would say, "Thank you
for being so honest with us. I'm sure our audience
understands how much guts it takes for you to tell
us these things." Permanent Records were being
opened up for the whole world to see — and the sky
did not fall in.

As Americans began to realize that there probably
never had been a Permanent Record, they deduced
that any kind of behavior was permissible. All
you had to do was say, "That was a real crazy
period in my life." All would be okay.

And that is where we are today. We have accepted
the notion that no one is keeping track. No one is
even allowed to keep track. I doubt you could scare
a school kid nowadays by telling him that the
principal was going to inscribe something on his
Permanent Record; the kid would probably file a suit
under the Freedom of Information Act and expect to
obtain his Permanent Record by recess. Either that,
or call it up on his or her computer and delete it.

As for us adults, it has been so long since we
believed in the Permanent Record that the very
mention of it now brings a nostalgic smile to
our faces. We feel naive for ever having
believed there was such a thing.

But who really knows? On some distant day when
we check out of this earthly world and approach
the gates of our new eternal home, our smiles
may freeze. We just might be greeted by a heavenly
presence sitting there, casually leafing through a
dusty, battered volume of our Permanent Record,
as we come jauntily into view.

--Bob Greene (1947— )
American journalist.
_Cheeseburgers: The Best of Bob Greene_ [1985]

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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither
physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but
moral acts: to return love for hate, to include
the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.
_Pieces of Eight_ [1982]

The character of every act depends upon the
circumstances in which it is done.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
"Schenck v. United States" [1919]

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be
known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act
were the whole world looking at you, and act accordingly.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Peter Carr [19 August 1785]

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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers
of morality: they discourse like angels, but they
live like men.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Rasselas_ [1759]


But if he does really think that there
is no distinction between virtue and
vice, why, sir, when he leaves our
houses, let us count our spoons.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

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If morality was only a question of what we
felt comfortable or uncomfortable doing, if
the pagans are correct that good is what
you feel good after and bad is what you feel
bad after, then why shouldn't somebody
torture children? What grounds do we have
for stopping them? We can only say,
"Personally, I find it abhorrent" to which
the torturer will say, "Good, that leaves
more children for me to torture."
--Harold Kushner
Conservative rabbi

You must remember that some things that are *legally*
right ar not *morally* right.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].
Remark to a prospective client refusing to take his case
(involving a $600 claim) against a widow with six children,
1840s?. In Francis Fisher Browne,
_The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln_, 2.6, [1887]

I dare say you need not be told how sensual
vice abounds in rural districts. Here it is flagrant
beyond anything I ever could have looked for:
and here while every justice of the peace is
filled with disgust and every clergyman with
(almost) despair at the drunkenness, quarrelling
and extreme licentiousness with women -- here
is dear good old [William] Wordsworth for ever
talking of rural innocence and deprecating any
intercourse with towns, lest the purity of his
neighbours should be corrupted.
--Harriet Martineau writing from the Lake District
in 1846 to Elizabeth Barrett.
{_History in Quotations_ M.J. Cohan and John Major [2004]}

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The difference between a moral man and a man
of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable
act; even when it has worked and he has not
been caught.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.


Time is a great legalizer, even in the
field of morals.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_A Book of Prefaces_ [1917]

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You must know when, how, and to whom you must
say "no." This involves considerable difficulty at times.
You must not hurt people, or want to hurt them, yet
you must not placate them at the price of infidelity to
higher and more essential values.
--Thomas Merton (1915—1968)
American Trappist monk and author.
_Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander_ [1966]

That which seems the height of absurdity in one
generation often becomes the height of wisdom
in the next.
--attributed to John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.

I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to
gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all
the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid
doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me
the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent,
or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.
--William Murray (Lord Mansfield) (1705—1793)
Scottish barrister and judge.

When one thinks of the lies and betrayals of those
years [the Thirties], the cynical abandonment of one
ally after another, the imbecile optimism of the Tory
press, the flat refusal to believe that the dictators meant
war, even when they shouted it from the house-tops,
the inability of the moneyed class to see anything
wrong whatever in concentration camps, ghettos,
massacres and undeclared wars, one is driven to feel
that moral decadence played its part as well as mere
stupidity.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
_Who are the War Criminals?_ in "Tribune" [22 October 1943].

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral
bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
--Wendell Phillips (1811—1884)
American abolitionist and reformer.

The modest fan was lifted up no more, and virgins
smiled at what they blushed before.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
Now, heaven knows,
Anything goes.
--Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.
"Anything Goes" [1934 song]

I believe that every man and woman has a moral
bank account. Our good deeds are deposits into
that account, our bad deeds are withdrawals. It
is our task as human beings to try to judge others’
accounts fairly, since every one of us has
withdrawals-and if our deposits are ignored, we
are all doomed to be judged worthless by others.
When assessing people, what is therefore called
for is perspective. We need it when judging anyone:
strangers, friends, spouses, employees. In the
overall context of a person’s life, is there a large
amount in the person’s moral account? Then,
while not denying the person’s sins-the withdrawals
from his or her moral bank account-we must
acknowledge the large balance that remains.
--Dennis Prager (1948— )
American talk-show host.

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To educate a person in mind and not in
morals is to educate a menace to society.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
In Stephen Bates, "A Textbook of Virtues",
_New York Times_ [8 Januarary 1995].

or

A person educated in mind and not in
morals is a menace to society.
--Juanita Kidd Stout (1919—1998)
American lawyer and in 1959 the first black
women in America to be elected to the Bench.

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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child—
the most important lesson for every time of life—
is this, 'Never hurt anybody.'
--Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)
French philosopher and novelist.

I learned years ago not to doze off or leave my
wallet lying around in the presence of people
who tell me that they are more moral than
others.
--Carl T. Rowan (1925— )
American journalist.
"In the Name of Morality"
_Washington Star_ [17 October 1980]

In this nonjudgmental era, the accusation of hypocrisy
is about the only acceptable judgement call. Today,
hypocrisy appears to be the only universally recognized
sin, not even infidelity, lying, cheating or addiction
are considered as reprehensible. We as a society have
caved in, dumbed down our expectations and morality,
and called it tolerance and freedom. Anyone who dares
defend standards risk relentless attacks to find some
flaw or inconsistency that can be used against him to
nullify the message. The "hypocrite" epithet is hurled
at those who are unafraid to make judgements based
on standards by people who have no standards.
--Dr. Laura Schlessinger (1947— )
American radio host.

Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
And God befriend us as our cause is just!
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist, _Henry IV_ [1597]

A society like ours, which professes no one religion
and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges
freedom to the point of license and individualism to
the point of anarchy, needs all the support that
responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope
your generation will provide a firmer shelter for
civilized standards.
--Alan K. Simpson (1931— )
American politician. U.S. Senator
from Wyoming [1979—1997].
Commencement address at Vassar [1965]

'One might almost fear,' writes a thoughtful woman, 'seeing
how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after
some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to
them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.'
--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.

The art of acting morally is behaving
*as if everything we do matters.*
--Gloria Steinem (1934— )
American feminist, jounalist, and founder of "Ms." magazine.
"The Birth of Ms." _New York_ {magazine} [19 April 1993]

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make
their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame
in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896)
American writer and philanthropist.
[Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher].

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual
superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do
wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_What is Man_ [1906], sec. 6

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere
of morality, arise sometimes from looking on
men as though they could be altogether bad,
or altogether good.
--Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715—1747)
French moralist and essayist.

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I want my attorney, my tailor, my servants, even
my wife to believe in God, and I think that then
I shall be robbed and cuckolded less often.
--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.
_Philosophical Dictionary_ [1764]

& see:

If I did not believe in God, I should still want
my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.

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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality
can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be
conceded to the influence of refined education on minds
of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid
us to expect that national morality can prevail in
exclusion of religious principle.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
In his Farewell Address [17 September 1796].

I make no defense of expediency, military, political, temporary,
or otherwise. For I believe the moral losses of expediency always
far outweigh the temporary gains. And I believe that every drop
of blood saved through expediency will be paid for by twenty
drawn by the sword.
--Wendell Wilkie (1892—1944)
American lawyer and the Republican nominee
for the 1940 presidential election (won by FDR).
_One World_ [1943]

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Two guys were having a discussion about sex, marriage,
and values. Gary said, "I didn't sleep with my wife before
we got married, did you?" Charlie replied, "I'm not sure,
What was her maiden name?"

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dissolute [DIS-uh-loot], adjective:
Loose in morals and conduct; marked by
indulgence in sensual pleasures or vices.

edify [ED-uh-fy], transitive verb:
To instruct and improve, especially in moral
and religious knowledge; to teach.

pestiferous [pes-TIF-uh-ruhs], adjective:
1. Bearing or bringing disease.
2. Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease.
3. Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious.
4. Bothersome; troublesome; annoying.

reprobate (noun)
A morally unprincipled person.
Synonym: miscreant

tart (noun, adjective) [tah(r)t]
(Noun 1) A small pie with a shallow shell, no covering,
and various fillings, usually of fruit;
(Noun 2) a wanton or loose girl, a woman who wears
cheap, gaudy clothes;
(Adjective) pungently sour, sharp to the taste.


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