I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
David Guterson
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To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
Timothy Radcliffe
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor
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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Louis Finkelstein
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I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.
David Cronenberg
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The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
Norman McLaren
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I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.
Vera Rubin
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I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.
Judy Sheindlin
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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
David Attenborough
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It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.
Jim Mattis
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I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.
Riley Keough
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
T. E. Lawrence
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Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.
Josh Trank
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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
Cynthia Ozick
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I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.
Joanna Lumley
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Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.
Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
Randall Terry
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The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
Jose Mourinho
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Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.
Charles Spurgeon
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To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.
Joan Didion
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
Rex Stout
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
Jonathan Sacks
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Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.
Blase J. Cupich
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