"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."

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Rex Stout

#Strong Quotes #Moral Quotes #Standards Quotes

“The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.”

Source : Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson
“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”
“I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.”
“Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.”
“The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.”

Source : "Noughts & Crosses". Book by Malorie Blackman, www.theguardian.com. 2009.
“I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.”
“A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.”
“This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to say homosexuality is wrong...you are a homophobe, which means you have a mental illness. That's what's built into this terminology.”

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