Quotes 341 till 360 of 596.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
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Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.''
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Part of courage is simple consistency.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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