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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral Quotes
Reflections on courage, values and conscience.
One line here draws a clear distinction between physical bravery, called an animal instinct, and moral bravery, described as the higher and truer form of courage. A separate, genuinely tolerant idea compares rival faiths to neighboring businesses, each one keeping the others honest through healthy competition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
- Nov 07, 2020
If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.
- Nov 07, 2020