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Moral Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in…
- I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
- There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
- Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of…
- Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
- There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is…
- Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
- When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that…
- [nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
- Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to…
- Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than…
- A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that…
- I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent…
- Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
- I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I…
- The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It…
- The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the…
- The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.…
- It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
- I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There…
- The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed…
- Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism…
- And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can…
- Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
- I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in…
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac