Morally Quotes
437 Morally quotes by 352 unique authors
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I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled…
— William E. Gladstone
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Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the…
— Charles Krauthammer
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There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.
— Al Franken
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become…
— William Gibson
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
— William E. Gladstone
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I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should…
— Gail Collins
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Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
— John Dewey
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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
— Annie Dillard
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether…
— Larry Elder
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
— W.C. Fields
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I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
— Kirk Hammett
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit…
— Sam Harris
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me.…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally…
— Kurt Huber
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets,…
— Jesse Jackson
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I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.
— Penn Jillette
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery…
— Penn Jillette
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That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see…
— Nicole Kidman
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If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to…
— Jonathan Kozol
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People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is…
— Ashton Kutcher
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I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
— Annie Lennox
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As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We…
— Hugh Laurie
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If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and…
— Annie Lennox
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a…
— Damian Lewis
Who Wrote These Morally Quotes
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