Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
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France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country
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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
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We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''
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Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions
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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.
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It is the creator of wrong; wrong cannot exist until Moral Sense brings it into being
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul
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It is not best that we use our morals week days; it gets them out of repair for Sundays
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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.