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«To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.»

Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | Keywords: conceived, defined, morality, notion, public, public morality, set up, standard, tyranny

«We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality»

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay (Historian) | Keywords: British, fits, periodical, public morality, spectacle, the British

«For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.»

Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: blindness, criminality, inferior, police, produced, properly, public morality, public opinion, subtler, thankful

«I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man»

Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Faith, Life, Morality | Keywords: code, countenanced, good faith, inconsistent, in public, Private Lives, public morality, strictest

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