"There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all."

Ethics, Freedom, Expression, Boundaries, Choice

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"There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all."

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

Todd Stocker, American Author

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Ethics, Honesty, Faith, Belief, Integrity

"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It's the unknown that draws people."

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"Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war."

Joy

"It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine."

Humanity

"It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance."

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"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"

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"You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, 'Well done."

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"If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens."

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"It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity."

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"Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought."

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