“ We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 99
“ It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically. ”
- Ousmane Sembane- Copy
- 4K
“ The life of a person has meaning if it enriches the lives of other people materially, intellectually and or morally. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The pseudonymous perpetrator of America's only unsolved airline hijacking is a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James. ”
- David Gates- Copy
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“ Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. ”
- Timothy McVeigh- Copy
- 416
“ I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 913
“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar. ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
- 1.5K
“ There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory. ”
- Michael Levin- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? ”
- Liam Neeson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ In my career, I have learned that giving of your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements my personal integrity. ”
- Stevie Wonder- Copy
- 3K
“ To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
- 950
“ Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. ”
- William E. Gladstone- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. ”
- James A. Froude- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ”
- John Dewey- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated. ”
- F. A. Wickett- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 3.8K
“ For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 820
“ You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors — how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices. ”
- John Wooden- Copy
- 380
“ Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine. ”
- Peter Lewis Allen- Copy
- 22
“ The exercise of the right inherent in every sovereign state of creating and issuing a sufficiency of money to make financially possible what is physically possible and morally desirable, would enable as much real wealth to be brought into existence as, with its immense inventive and scientific potential, it is capable of making. ”
- Arthur Bryant- Copy
- 728
“ When I first started practicing law in the 1960s, no person had ever won a case against the City of Los Angeles for violation of their civil rights. There came a time when I felt morally I just could not try these cases anymore. I then left the office and my time in private practice has been interesting to say the least. ”
- Johnnie Cochran- Copy
- 228
“ There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued… ”
- William Booth- Copy
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