He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice. — Bernice King Copy Share Image
I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal… — Sumner Welles Copy Share Image
“Deeply reluctant to judge a Founder as wanting in moral force, modern commentators retreat to a range of adjectives such as ‘flawed,’… — Henry Wiencek Copy Share Image
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side… — M. Guizot Copy Share Image
“I believe in Free Will, the Force Almighty by which we conduct ourselves as if we were the sons and daughters of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
“Google, says its CEO, is more than a mere business; it is a “moral force.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image