Moral Quotes
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Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
John Hurt
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.
Anthony Doerr
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An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.
Thomas Sowell
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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
William Bennett
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Increasingly, politics is not about 'who gets what, when, how' but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about 'the right to life'...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.
Peter Drucker
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. … For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
Charles Krauthammer
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
Lysander Spooner
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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
William Wilberforce
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Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.
Charles Foster Johnson
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Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley
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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
Paul Gauguin
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I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it is our moral duty to serve our fellow man regardless of race, sex, affiliation or creed, and when we serve, we believe that it is the state's duty to get out of the way.
Allen West
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It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live in poverty. And studies over the last 20 years in states where we have seen these minimum wage increases show there's no discernible impact on employment growth. In fact, what it does is line low-wage workers' pockets with higher wages.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
