The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary
citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is
they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while
their "betters" were derelict.
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Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
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I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality.
I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
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I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality?
Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is read more
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
