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Moral Quotes

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

Ownership Bad Situation Moral Nation

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man Long Moral Possible He Trousers

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Experience Think Parent Moral Want

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

Moral Understand Become Difficult

Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'

Pope Benedict XVI

Good Generation Moral Authority Ask

I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

Employees You Moral True Why Never

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Life Respect Political Dignity Moral

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral Interpretation Only Phenomena

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

America Early Moral Kind More Panic

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Francois Fenelon

Happiness World Road Moral True

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Rocco Buttiglione

Law Moral Difference Conscience Hold

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Ezra Taft Benson

Marriage Women Men Heaven Moral

We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People's Republic of China.

Work People Speak Doing Moral China

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Character You Moral Breathe Audience

We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our moral obligation through the insurance system, which punishes the people who are fiscally responsible to buy insurance.

Finance People Insurance Moral Try

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Women Men Fight Moral Accept Right

Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.

People Economics Heritage Moral More

Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right.

Acting Moral More Right Out High

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

Good Habit Mind Bad Moral Fiction

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Ellen McLaughlin

Life Work Love Professional Moral

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Nature Purpose Credit Moral See Our

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Benito Mussolini

Strong Feel Friends Look Moral Lean

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

Truth Truth Is Thought Moral High

Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

Bible Moral Old Affirmation Above

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