Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would b…

Margaret Thatcher
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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose. ✨ Margaret Thatcher (1997). The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher, HarperCollins
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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose. ✨ Margaret Thatcher (1997). The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher, HarperCollins

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