Moral Quotes
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It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation's heroes have a home to return to at night.
Gene Green
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth
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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 think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
Douglas Coupland
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By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.
E. F. Schumacher
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The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.
Charles Grandison Finney
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
Michael Eric Dyson
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
Lech Walesa
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First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
Henry Louis Gates
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Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
Moshe Sharett
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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.
Charles Grandison Finney
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll
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In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.
Diane Ackerman
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Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
Ruth Gordon
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.
Sherman Alexie
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My morals are important to me.
Hunter Parrish
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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
Nicole Krauss
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Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
Paul S. Kemp
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Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.
Thomas Sowell
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To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.
Carlo Levi
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I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
Eudora Welty