Quotes with moral

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  • Henry David Thoreau All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John W. Gardner America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Adam Schiff Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Martin Luther King And I believe it because somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
    Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Barack Obama As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • George Santayana Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Alan Watts Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Anita Roddick Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bobby Rush Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
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  • Berkeley Breathed Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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