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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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- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean McConville.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020