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Moral Quotes

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.

Man Honor Moral Difference Regrets

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

Bruce Feirstein

Political Questions Moral Real Our

People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.

Science People Economics Think Moral

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.

People Political Feeling Moral Done

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

Lesson Moral Teach Fairy Myth Than

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

People You Moral Sometimes Religious

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History Moral Now United State

The U.S. has made a lot of mistakes all over the world... look at Iraq. The country that makes such mistakes do not have the moral right to teach the world.

Margarita Simonyan

Mistakes World Look Country Moral

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

Courage Time Society Genius Moral

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

Hjalmar Schacht

Peace War Memory People Moral Minds

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

Life Wrong Moral Right Conscience

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

Moral Matters Taste Out Issues

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

Leadership America Moral Would Were

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

Moral Whatever United United States

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Herbert Marcuse

Morality Moral Own Verbal Concept

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

Creative Strong Moral Compass Evolve

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

Moral Talk Social Social Issues Than

Insofar as each of us has been through the moral stages and has held the viewpoint of each stage, we should be able to put ourselves in the internal framework of a given stage.

Lawrence Kohlberg

Moral Stage Through Us Been Able

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Someone You Moral Know Always Based

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Great World Small Country Moral Her

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Revolution Opinions Manners Moral

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Failure Time Fire People You Moral

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

Intelligence Law Values Moral Need

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Justice Game Think Play Moral Over

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