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title: "5 Moral Consensus Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-alexander/i-believe-it-is-possible-to-bring-an-end-to-mass-incarceration-and/)

[Michelle Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-alexander/)

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> [“We should not be surprised therefore if British conservative thinkers – notably Hume, Smith, Burke and Oakeshott – have tended to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-scruton/we-should-not-be-surprised-therefore-if-british-conservative-thinkers/)

[Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-scruton/)

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> [The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson/the-price-of-these-failures-has-been-a-loss-of-moral-consensus-a/)

[E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson/)

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> [By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-w-brands/by-the-early-1960s-there-was-a-moral-consensus-on-what-needed-to-be/)

[H. W. Brands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-w-brands/)

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> [What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/what-this-brings-out-is-that-modern-politics-cannot-be-a-matter-of/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

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