Moral Quotes - Page 36

• Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Garden, Gathering

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• I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Politics, Arena, Morality

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• My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

  Michael Biehn

  Swings, Violence, Trouble

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• One should make morals judgements for oneself.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Judgement, Should, Oneself

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• You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

  William Blake

  Hate, Artist, Race

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.616, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Change, Success, Business

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• I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

  Bono

  Artist, Thinking, Cracks

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• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Men, Humanity, World

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• Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Authority, Unesco, Courses

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• Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Certainty

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• It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Discovery, Religion, Atheism

  "What America Means to Me". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1943.

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• I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Humorous, Believe, Practice

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• I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

  Julie Burchill

  Real, People, Problem

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• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  Edmund Burke

  Important, Revolution, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.119

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Wine, Beer

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

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• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Thinking, Healthy

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• America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

  George H. W. Bush

  America, People, History

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

  A. S. Byatt

  Self, Looks, Moral Beliefs

  "That thinking feeling" by Marianne Brace, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 1996.

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• Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

  David Cameron

  Moral Leadership, America, Way

  "U.K. State Dinner Highlights Obama, Cameron Friendship" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Two, People

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• In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

  Tony Campolo

  Thinking, Abortion, Problem

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• So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

  Tony Campolo

  Issues, Addresses, Scandal

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• The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

  Benjamin Carson

  Together, Empires, Lost

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• My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Success, Congratulations, Dark

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

  Raymond Chandler

  Attitude, Integrity, Gentleman

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.150, Univ of California Press

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