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Moral Quotes

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Alexander McCall Smith

Small Things Imagination Small Moral

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

Good Live Writing Moral Will Places

I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.

Writing Think You Down Moral Heroes

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

Sacrifice Moral Authority Like

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Moral Precept Something About Does

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

Alan Dershowitz

Time Lawyer You Moral Quit Become

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Good Good Things Think Moral Boy

It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.

Responsibility You Person Moral Come

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Change Someone Moral Nothing Will

A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.

Me Influence Story End Dark Moral

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

Envy Moral Most Indignation Cases

The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the 'immoral' man. 'He who is not moral is immoral!' and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

Man Enemy Moral Never Who Knows

Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.

Lewis B. Smedes

Woman Free Body Moral Nothing She

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

You Find Moral Everything Got Only

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

Education Childhood Face Early Moral

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Christian Lous Lange

Work Together Value Joy Doing Moral

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Theodor W. Adorno

Time Money Moral Others Own Above

I really worry about the way in which you, as a celebrity, are disproportionately treated. Frankly, the industry is almost single-handedly designed to interfere with people's moral chemistry.

People Worry You Moral Chemistry

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

Ken Livingstone

Political Moral Beliefs Framework

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Fashion Reality You I Can Moral

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

Accountability Moral Now Late-Night

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

Good Practice You Moral Virtue

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

Care Moral Animals Farming Race

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

Heart Game Think End You Moral

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