Moral Quotes
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So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
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Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
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If I had to place any blame for my future nefarious actions, I'd put it on the Ford. That Ford fractured every moral fiber in my body. It introduced me to girls, and I didn't come to my senses for six years. They were wonderful years.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
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Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
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Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.
