...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. — Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. — Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. — Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. — Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. — Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

— Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. — Mae West
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good — Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. — Oprah Winfrey
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 ba — Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment — Immanuel Kant
Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person s — David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking an — Leo Tolstoy
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, ma — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishmen — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. — Stephen King, The Stand
Conventionality is not morality. — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. — George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings