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title: "23 Moral Force Quotes by 22 authors"
description: "Browse 23 Moral Force quotes by 22 authors. Discover the best Moral Force sayings and thoughts."
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> [He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/confucius/he-who-rules-by-moral-force-is-like-the-pole-star-which-remains-in/)

[Confucius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/confucius/)

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> [There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/there-s-a-moral-force-in-a-sentence-when-it-comes-out-right-it-speaks/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-church-is-not-a-political-power-nor-a-political-party-but-rather/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernice-king/love-is-not-a-weak-spineless-emotion-it-is-a-powerful-moral-force-on/)

[Bernice King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernice-king/)

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> [I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-think-joe-leiberman-has-been-one-of-the-leaders-of-the-country/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

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> [America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/america-is-the-moral-force-that-defeated-communism-and-all-those-who/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/despotic-governments-can-stand-moral-force-till-the-cows-come-home/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-shapps/we-may-forget-it-among-the-glitz-of-the-christmas-lights-but/)

[Grant Shapps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-shapps/)

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> [A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-democrat-should-not-rely-upon-the-force-of-the-arms-his-state-could/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-kung/for-many-people-the-pope-is-still-to-a-certain-extent-a-positive-role/)

[Hans Kung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-kung/)

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> [A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-popular-government-wields-a-moral-force-which-is-infinitely/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-cabot-lodge/we-would-not-have-our-country-s-vigour-exhausted-or-her-moral-force/)

[Henry Cabot Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-cabot-lodge/)

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> [The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-gephardt/the-sanctity-of-a-woman-s-right-to-control-her-own-destiny-is-a-moral/)

[Dick Gephardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-gephardt/)

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> [There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sumner-welles/there-are-few-of-us-so-blind-as-not-to-realize-that-unless-the-moral/)

[Sumner Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sumner-welles/)

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> [“Deeply reluctant to judge a Founder as wanting in moral force, modern commentators retreat to a range of adjectives such as ‘flawed,’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wiencek/deeply-reluctant-to-judge-a-founder-as-wanting-in-moral-force-modern/)

[Henry Wiencek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wiencek/)

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> [We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pz-myers/we-godless-lack-that-certainty-and-we-know-the-world-is-a-complex/)

[PZ Myers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pz-myers/)

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> [“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/what-art-does-is-to-coax-us-away-from-the-mechanical-and-towards-the/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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> [“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-guizot/there-is-mingled-good-and-evil-in-all-the-events-and-governments-of/)

[M. Guizot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-guizot/)

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> [“I believe in Free Will, the Force Almighty by which we conduct ourselves as if we were the sons and daughters of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/i-believe-in-free-will-the-force-almighty-by-which-we-conduct/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rohini-nilekani/unfortunately-the-overwhelming-moral-force-exerted-by-leaders-like/)

[Rohini Nilekani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rohini-nilekani/)

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> [The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/the-value-of-art-lies-in-its-power-to-increase-our-moral-force-or/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

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> [“Google, says its CEO, is more than a mere business; it is a “moral force.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-carr/google-says-its-ceo-is-more-than-a-mere-business-it-is-a-moral-force/)

[Nicholas Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-carr/)

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> [Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/nonviolence-is-not-sterile-passivity-but-a-powerful-moral-force-which/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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                        "text": "“Deeply reluctant to judge a Founder as wanting in moral force, modern commentators retreat to a range of adjectives such as ‘flawed,’ ‘human,’ ‘contradictory,’ ‘paradoxical,’ ‘compartmentalized,’ while preserving for [Thomas] Jefferson what [one] historian...calls ‘a fundamental core of naïve innocence.’* But at Jefferson’s core there lay a fundamental belief in the righteousness of his power. Jefferson wore racism like a suit of armor, knowing that it would always break the sharpest swords of the idealists.”",
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                        "text": "We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.",
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                        "text": "“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power. Art is not part of the machine. Art asks us to think differently, see differently, hear differently, and ultimately to act differently, which is why art has moral force. Ruskin was right, though for the wrong reasons, when he talked about art as a moral force. Art is not about good behaviour, when did you last see a miracle behave well? Art makes us better people because it asks for our full humanity, and humanity is, or should be, the polar opposite of the merely mechanical. We are not part of the machine either, but we have forgotten that. Art is memory — which is quite different [from] history. Art asks that we remember who we are, and usually that asking has to come as provocation — which is why art breaks the rules and the taboos, and at the same time is a moral force.”",
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                        "text": "“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or in the wake of evil, but it is never from the evil that the good comes; injustice and tyranny have never produced good fruits. Be assured that whenever they have the dominion, whenever the moral rights and personal liberties of men are trodden under foot by material force, be it barbaric or be it scientific, there can result only prolonged evils and deplorable obstacles to the return of moral right and moral force, which, God be thanked, can never he obliterated from the nature and the history of man.”",
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                        "text": "“I believe in Free Will, the Force Almighty by which we conduct ourselves as if we were the sons and daughters of a just and wise God, even if there is no such Supreme Being. And by free will, we can choose to do good on this earth, no matter that we all die, and do not know where we go when we die, or if a justice or explanation awaits us. I believe that we can, through our reason, know what good is, and in the communion of men and women, in which the forgiveness of wrongs will always be more significant than the avenging of them, and that in the beautiful natural world that surrounds us, we represent the best and the finest of beings, for we alone can see that natural beauty, appreciate it, learn from it, weep for it, and seek to conserve it and protect it. I believe finally that we are the only true moral force in the physical world, the makers of, ethics and moral ideas, and that we must be as good as the gods we created in the past to guide us. I believe that through our finest efforts, we will succeed finally in creating heaven on earth, and we do it every time that we love, every time that we embrace, every time that we commit to create rather than destroy, every time that we place life over death, and the natural over what is unnatural, insofar as we are able to define it. And I suppose I do believe in the final analysis that a peace of mind can be obtained in the face of the worst horrors and the worst losses. It can be obtained by faith in change and in will and in accident and by faith in ourselves, that we will do the right thing, more often than not, in the face of adversity. For ours is the power and the glory, because we are capable of visions and ideas which are ultimately stronger and more enduring than we are. That is my credo. That is my belief, for what it's worth, and it sustains me. And if I were to die right now, I wouldn't be afraid. Because I can't believe that horror or chaos awaits us. If any revelation awaits us at all, it must be as good as our ideals and our philosophy. For surely nature must embrace the visible and the invisible, and it couldn't fall short of us. The thing that makes the flowers open and the snowflakes fall must contain a wisdom and a final secret as intricate and beautiful as the blooming camellia or the clouds gathering above, so white and so pure in the blackness. If that isn't so, then we are in the grip of a staggering irony. And all the spooks of hell might as well dance. There could be a devil. People who burn other people to death are fine. There could be anything. But the world is simply to beautiful for that. At least it seems that way to me.”",
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