Moral Action

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“Unfortunately, moral beauty in art—like physical beauty in a person—is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)