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morals
«Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
devoted, embarrassing, formerly, lowering, modern art, morals, shocking, threshold, thresholds
«Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind,
Problems
| Keywords:
attributing, environment, In the Realm, morals, realm
«Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
acquirement, acquirements, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, morals, paralysis, piety, poker, pokers
«Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
code, complemented, complements, morals, Moral code, natural law, The Code
«My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
abolition, disposition, improving, lessen, lessened, lessening, lessens, morals, practicable, views