Top Moral Quotes
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
Tom Allen
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud
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Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Hillary Clinton 
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
John Stuart Mill
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Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.
Mort Kondracke
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
Kurt Huber
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
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I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
Richard Lugar
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
Patrick Marber
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Popular Moral Authors
Henry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyMark TwainOscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheMohandas GandhiLucius Annaeus SenecaThomas Jefferson PlatoH. L. Mencken AristotleGilbert K. ChestertonFrancis Bacon
Blaise PascalBertrand RussellRonald ReaganJohn RuskinMartin Luther King, Jr.Michel de MontaigneDavid Herbert LawrenceJohn F. KennedyAldous HuxleyBarack ObamaRobert Louis StevensonEdmund BurkeCharles Caleb ColtonOliver Wendell HolmesErnest Hemingway
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