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title: "8 Moral goodness Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/morality-is-not-just-any-old-topic-in-psychology-but-close-to-our/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-moral-duty-of-man-consists-of-imitatingthe-moral-goodness-and/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-miller/when-irrational-terror-takes-to-itself-the-fiat-of-moral-goodness/)

[Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-miller/)

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> [Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kapleau/ultimately-the-case-for-shunning-animal-flesh-does-not-rest-on-what/)

[Philip Kapleau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kapleau/)

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> [The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-moral-duty-of-man-consists-of-imitating-the-moral-goodness-and/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kropotkin/cleverly-assorted-scraps-of-spurious-science-are-inculcated-upon-the/)

[Peter Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kropotkin/)

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> [How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/how-wholesome-winter-is-seen-far-or-near-how-good-above-all-mere/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-mandela/for-me-nonviolence-was-not-a-moral-principle-but-a-strategy-there-is/)

[Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-mandela/)

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