Moral Quotes - Page 40

• The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Moving, Destiny

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Hair, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Challenges, Vision

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• I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

  Mick Jagger

  Expression, Issues, Fiscal Policy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

  Alice James

  Pain, Fall, Soul

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

  Henry James

  Men, Manners, Bad Manners

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• In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

  Penn Jillette

  Christian, Running, Voice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

  Tony Judt

  Believe, Should Have, Political

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• Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Names, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Watches, Literature

  "Contemplating Evil: An Interview with Dean Koontz". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

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• The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Order, Years

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.166, Crown

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• Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

  Talib Kweli

  Radio, Way, Compromise

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• I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Violence, Reason

  "Is Aung San Suu Kyi rethinking her tactics?" by John Simpson, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Reality, Different

  "Karl Lagerfeld: Models Are Not That Skinny" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2012.

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Class, Society

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

  Anne Lamott

  Religious, Rights, Justice

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Birth, Progressive

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• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Jesus, Blood, Rivers

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Literature, Faculty

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sunday, Golf, Views

  Over the Footlights (1923) "Why I Refuse to Play Golf"

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• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Character, People, Literature

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• People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

  Carl Lewis

  People, The End Of The Day, Doe

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• Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Long, Morality

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 12, 1799.

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• One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Gliding, Might

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 10, 1799.

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