Morally Quotes

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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably… — Julian Assange
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not… — Michael Bloomberg
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country.… — H. Rap Brown
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while… — William J. Clinton
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. — Christiane Amanpour
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that… — Thomas Aquinas
Immigrants are exactly what America needs. They're what we need economically, and I think they're what we need morally... [They] revitalize America and get it… — Rudy Giuliani
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a… — Edward V. Long
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… — Ousmane Sembene
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to… — Charles Horton Cooley
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
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
In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It… — Stevie Wonder
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified… — George Santayana
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive… — Abraham Lincoln
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not… — Abraham Lincoln
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but… — Henry David Thoreau
Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a… — L. Neil Smith

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