My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
Jack Wagner
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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Christopher Lasch
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In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.
Vladimir Putin
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Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
Robert Reich
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For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Leland Ryken
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
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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.
Craig Brown
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When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
Samuel Witwer
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No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
Matthew Desmond
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For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.
Justin Cartwright
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
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If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful because there's no moral tension.
Chrystia Freeland
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You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie. A movie should only be concerned with characters, not some big moral, although it's always underneath.
Paul Morrissey
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
Anita Roddick
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I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
Jane Green
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I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
Hari Kunzru
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Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.
Brad Schneider
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The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Paul Bloom
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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
Jeannette Walls
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Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
Julian Baggini
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken
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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Bob Dole
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A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
Nicholas Johnson
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With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.
Jean Piaget
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