Moral Quotes
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The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all
Tryon Edwards
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
Sydney J. Harris
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The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.
Proverb
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated
Mahatma Gandhi
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Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life
Joseph Pulitzer
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man`s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man`s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that h...
Edward Kennedy
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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances
Confucius
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Bill Lovejoy
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Alexander Nikonov
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill
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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
Thomas Jefferson
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The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being
Thomas Jefferson
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The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither a...
Susan Sontag
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Shaw
Subject: Morality QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
Mark Twain
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
Abraham Lincoln
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Love is the expression of one`s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats
