Moral Quotes
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Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
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There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.
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We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.
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Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
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America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.
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Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.
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Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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I think optimism is a moral imperative.
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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.
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'The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.'
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The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
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In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.
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We need a regime change in this country.… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace - made me expect the worst.
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Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.
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'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.
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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
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Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.
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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
