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title: "18 Political Moral Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Political Moral quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Political Moral sayings and thoughts."
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> [Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/nonviolence-is-the-answer-to-the-crucial-political-moral-questions-of/)

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

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> [Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-emerson-fosdick/democracy-is-not-simply-a-political-system-it-is-a-moral-movement-and/)

[Harry Emerson Fosdick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-emerson-fosdick/)

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> [Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/prudence-is-not-only-the-first-in-rank-of-the-virtues-political-and/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-v-wedgwood/history-in-spite-of-the-occasional-protest-of-historians-will-always/)

[C. V. Wedgwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-v-wedgwood/)

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> [Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/why-are-empirical-questions-about-how-the-mind-works-so-weighted-down/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-tudge/trees-are-right-at-the-heart-of-all-the-necessary-debates-ecological/)

[Colin Tudge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-tudge/)

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> [If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aime-martin/if-you-would-know-the-political-and-moral-condition-of-a-people-ask/)

[Aime Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aime-martin/)

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> [A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-giroux/a-citizen-is-a-political-and-moral-agent-who-in-fact-has-a-shared/)

[Henry Giroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-giroux/)

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> [The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-hall/the-nature-of-power-in-the-modern-world-is-that-it-is-also/)

[Stuart Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-hall/)

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> [“He will repeat it boldly (for it has been said before him), truths that form the basis of political and moral science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/he-will-repeat-it-boldly-for-it-has-been-said-before-him-truths-that/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

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> [I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-gibney/i-think-of-my-films-as-not-necessarily-political-but-more-moral/)

[Alex Gibney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-gibney/)

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> [By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/by-exploring-the-political-and-moral-colorings-of-discoveries-about/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/democracy-taken-in-its-narrower-purely-political-sense-suffers-from/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-ought-not-be-two-histories-one-of-political-and-moral-action/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-eagleton/what-it-means-to-be-a-better-person-then-must-be-concrete-and/)

[Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-eagleton/)

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> [“If there is any political moral to be found in this world,” Stencil once wrote in his journal, “it is that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/if-there-is-any-political-moral-to-be-found-in-this-world-stencil/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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> [I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoni-tapies/i-never-view-aesthetic-ideas-as-having-an-existence-purely-of-their/)

[Antoni Tapies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoni-tapies/)

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> [I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything within our power to maintain the Good Friday Agreement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frans-timmermans/i-think-we-have-a-political-and-moral-duty-to-do-everything-within/)

[Frans Timmermans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frans-timmermans/)

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                        "text": "Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.",
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                        "text": "“If there is any political moral to be found in this world,” Stencil once wrote in his journal, “it is that we carry on the business of this century with an intolerable double vision. Right and Left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouses of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets by manipulated mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future. “What of the real present, the men-of-no-politics, the once-respectable Golden Mean? Obsolete; in any case, lost sight of. In a West of such extremes we can expect, at the very least, a highly ‘alienated’ populace within not many more years.”",
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