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
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
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
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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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
Hermann von Helmholtz 
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We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
Jim Clyburn 
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It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Henry Mayhew 
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Francois Fenelon 
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The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
Morgan Brittany 
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Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Robert Casey 
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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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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
Michel de Montaigne 
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Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
Dick Gephardt 
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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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