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I have never
regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of
interest.
-- Aneurin Bevan
1897-1960, British Labor
Politician
Just as
there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is
garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental
Protection Agency to clean it up.
-- Patrick Buchanan
1938-, American Statesman
Though sages
may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner
moralist than pleasure.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
For the
''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too
would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but
blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is
properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by
greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police;
and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public
Opinion.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
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It is far
easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a
man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like
the plague.
-- Angela Carter
1940-1992, British Author
The person is
always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot
know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of
morals who has mastered the difference between pride and
vanity.
-- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer,
Journalist, Playwright
I cannot
believe that this country cannot come together around some
values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is
not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach
these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.
-- Robert Coles
Corruption is
like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must
increase.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
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