Moral Quotes - Page 37

• Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

  Hugo Chavez

  Believe, Our World, Government

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Men, Criminals

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Morality, Justified

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• States are not moral agents.

  Noam Chomsky

  Agents, States

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.163, The New Press

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• The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Bases, Ten Commandments

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• My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Strong, Dad, Hero

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• They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Betrayal, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.29, e-artnow

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• You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

  Joseph Conrad

  Integrity, Men, Honor

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1154, e-artnow

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• The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Tone, Higher

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• I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

  Billy Corgan

  Country, Thinking, Kind

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2012.

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• The higher the building the lower the morals.

  Noel Coward

  Literature, Morality, Architecture

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• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  Daniel Craig

  Guy, Littles, Kind

  "Capone saddles up with Daniel Craig to talk COWBOYS & ALIENS!!!". Interview with Capone, www.aintitcool.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

  David Cronenberg

  Writing, Filmmaker, Plans

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn, 1988).

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• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Football, Responsibility, Player

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• You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

  Carson Daly

  Wish, Way, Certain

  "Carson Daly: 'I'm Living Proof That the Good Guys Win'". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 19, 2012.

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• A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

  Christopher Dawson

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Fall

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.120, CUA Press

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• Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Thinking, Long

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• In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Evil, Choices

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• I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Political, Connections

  "Alan Dershowitz on Being Wrong, Part I: Lawyers, Pundits, Error, and Evil". Interview with Kathryn Schulz, www.slate.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Kings, Powerful, Doe

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Criminals, Defense, Roles

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• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Europe, Government

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

  Denis Diderot

  Divorce, Population, Literature

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Want Something, Deceiving

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Apr 18, 2013

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