Moral Quotes
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We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.
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Clock, n.: A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
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Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation -their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
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Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.
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Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.
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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
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Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
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The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I’d be against it on moral grounds.
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Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.
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There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.
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Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
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Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.
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Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
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The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
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I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
