Moral Quotes
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It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.
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I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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Moral solipsism.
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The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
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Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality.
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Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill with impunity, where they can turn up at a place, shoot seven people - really at point-blank fashions - and then get away with it and be, in fact, promoted. And then there is the actual responsibility, the governmental responsibility. My aunt's government forbade us, initially, from filing a police report - which is every Pakistani citizen's right under the law.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
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We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
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Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God, creation, and the moral order are inadmissible for political debate.
