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"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
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"...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is."
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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."
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"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."
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"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."
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"Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers."
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"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."
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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
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"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
Attention
"Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue."
Virtue
"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
Education
"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
Society
"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
Honesty
"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
Responsibility
"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one."
Technology
"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not."
Love
"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."
Society
"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility."
Ethics
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