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It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
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.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us
as much as the word telephone read more
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us
as much as the word telephone or motor car.
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in
our actions. Our inner balance and even our read more
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in
our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence
depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and
dignity to life.
I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in read more
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 keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the read more
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.
