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right and wrong
«Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.»
«Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
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amuse, attainment, a priori, cant, canted, canting, cants, educating, flax, identification, magical, novels, princess, princesses, right and wrong, sense of right and wrong, systems, tales, The Cant, younger
«Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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convertible, dependant, popular opinion, right and wrong
«It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
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constitute, furnishes, moral principle, respected, right and wrong, systematically
«IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, dependent, dependent on, disorder, expediency, immoral, inexpedient, instances, in the long run, moral character, moral philosophy, notions, nowise, originated, regard to, right and wrong, with regard to
«Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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core, earliest, embracing, ethical, honoring, individual differences, involves, right and wrong
«I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life -- ever.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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good authority, My Wife, right and wrong, sense of right and wrong
«All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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backgammon, checker, checkers, gaming, right and wrong, right to vote, slight, tinge, tinged, tingeing
«Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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bugbear, bugbears, distinctions, falsehood, idols, incorrigible, indifferent, right and wrong