Morally Quotes
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Aristotle -
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Barbra Streisand
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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
Laura Dern -
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
Henrik Ibsen -
Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
Vaclav Havel -
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.
W. G. Sebald -
We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
Vaclav Havel
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I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
Richard Platt -
Either one is factually equal, and consequently morally equal as well; on the other hand, if one is morally equal, there is no reason why one should contest factual equality of rights or simply refuse to grant them.
Adolf Hitler -
What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?
Leonard Peikoff -
In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.
Stevie Wonder -
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
Abraham Lincoln -
It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
Evelyn Underhill
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Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?
David Roediger -
Morally it was wrong to do so in this situation and certainly misleading to the officer...
Bruce Bartlett -
I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.
Adolf Hitler -
Look at the leader of my country, he is somebody I cannot relate to at all. He is so far removed from me - politically, personally and morally.
Colin Meloy -
The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.
Ernst Hanfstaengl -
If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it
Genevieve Bell
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
John Maynard Keynes -
I don't like movies that are morally simple.
Paul Mazursky -
Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.
Brad Williams