Moral Quotes
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The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
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It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
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The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
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We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
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A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.
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Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
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The operation was wildly out of proportion to the threat. It would compromise our moral position in the world and make it impossible for us to protest treaty violations by the Communists.
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Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
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When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
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A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.
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Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
