Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.

The Grapes of Wrath

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Judging others Moral relativism Morality

Speaker

Jim Casy

Actor

John Carradine

Source

The Grapes of Wrath

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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Topic
Conservation Man and nature

Author

Aldo Leopold
Source
A Sand County Almanac
Medium
Essay
Genre
Nature writing
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

Another quote about Morality

Censorship is crucial for preserving morals but useless for restoring them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract

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Censorship Morality

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
The Social Contract
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
French
Time
1762 1760s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 4, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 4, ch. 7.

Another quote from 1940

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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The world Death
Speaker
Robert Jordan

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Source
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Medium
Novel
Genre
War novel
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

Another quote from the following genre Drama

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

The Third Man

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Nature of history
Speaker
Harry Lime
Actor
Orson Welles
Source
The Third Man
Medium
Film
Genre
Film noir Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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Citation

The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.