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It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
Antony Beevor
War
Great
Confused
World
Face
Important
Danger
Moral
Would
Unspoken
Major
Most
Make
Forced
Understand
How
Continuing
Question
Behaved
Us
Choices
Fascination
Second
World War
Second World War
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
April Gornik
Intelligence
Behavior
Own
Our
Moral
Smarts
Well
Should
Measure
Basis
The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact.
Ari Melber
Life
People
Care
Every
Press
Moral
About
Morality
More
Fact
Factual
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Although
Comfortable
Always
Lot
Than
Precise
Heck
Actual
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Failure
Cause
Important
Young
Omission
Moral
Embrace
Lies
John
John F. Kennedy
More
Inspired
He
Part
Sin
Idealism
Beyond
Himself
Surely
Answer
Reduced
His
Clinton
Personal
Bill
Bill Clinton
Lapse
Popularity
Actually
Monica
Monica Lewinsky
Kennedy
Lewinsky
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
Arsene Wenger
Love
Game
People
Values
Club
Back
Our
Those
Moral
Moral Values
Give
Purpose
Learn
How
Educational
Arsenal
Behave
Who
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Arthur Henderson
Peace
Natural
Unity
Moral
Driving
Toward
Powerful
Well
Forces
Material
Intellectual
Mankind
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
Arthur Hertzberg
Poverty
Country
Revolution
Assured
Our
Security
Moral
Would
Never
Reach
Enactment
Nonsense
Were
Very
Wall
Wall Street
Going
Social
Roosevelt
Depths
Gamble
Social Security
Now
Street
We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.
Asma Jahangir
Religion
Terrorism
Fight
Courage
Unleashed
Moral
Moral Courage
Only
Through
Brute
Brute Force
Name
Force
Terror
May
Challenged
If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
Asma Jahangir
You
Respect
People
Moral Authority
Believe
Rule
Moral
Goose
Authority
Then
Really
Your
Cooked
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
Atul Gawande
Writing
Moral
Insight
Writer
Combination
George
His
George Orwell
Pinnacle
Literary
Orwell
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.
Atul Gawande
Time
Failure
You
People
Fire
Our
Ensure
Moral
Physical
Admit
Percent
Never
Because
Practise
Surgical
Want
Skills
Right
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Political
Moral
Practical
Non-Violence
Hold
Reasons
It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has been aroused, is the deepest one in moral life.
Austin Clarke
Life
Justice
Welfare
Passion
Once
Has-Been
Moral
Takes
Learn
Aroused
Been
Years
Us
Many
Deepest
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.
Azar Nafisi
You
Think
Bad
Moral
Moral Issue
About
Take
Never
Most
Make
Issue
Author
Just
Want
Ever
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Mom
Thought
Motherhood
Ladder
Pay
Pedestal
Out
Moral
Some
About
Pointed
Take
Putting
Nobody
Until
Nonexistent
Feminists
Brash
Lousy
Century
Ever
Career
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Good
Good And Evil
Evil
Those
Moral
Struggles
Between
Most
Painful
Lesser
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
Barbara Park
Smile
Book
Value
Nothing
Believe
Think
Extraordinary
Those
Moral
Tries
More
Only
Gives
Fact
Perfect
Terms
Reader
Impose
Huge
Than
Offers
Role
Role Models
Models
Children
In Fact
Happen
Personally
Measured
Who
Lessons
Two
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.
Bari Weiss
President
Abandoned
High
Moral
Embrace
High Ground
Seized
Era
Trump
Left
Ground
Right
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
Barry Eisler
Good
Great
Conflict
Heroes
Bad Things
Think
Drawn
Characters
Bad
Moral
Find
Guys
Sure
Makes
Ambiguity
Who
Villains
Why
Things
Good Guys
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
Barry Schwartz
Wisdom
Dimension
Moral
Practical
Situations
Them
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
Beau Willimon
Politics
Integrity
People
Politician
Think
Other
Way
Moral
About
Perfect
Perfect People
Leaders
Opposed
Diametrically
Saints
Hand
Effective
Want
Them
Things
Two
As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
Ben Bernanke
Problem
Financial
Try
System
Financial System
Moral
Must
Hazard
Make
Safer
Inevitably
Confront
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
Bernice King
Environmental
Class
Injustice
Political
Example
Healthy
Corporations
Intolerable
Those
Minimal
Moral
Impacted
Structures
Concern
Tangible
Being
Race
Ethnicity
Standards
Based
Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.
Betsy Hodges
Change
Reality
Humanity
Control
Moral
Imperative
Scientific
Climate
Climate Change
Effective
We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.
Bill Flores
Today
Enemy
National
State
Moral
Facing
Boundaries
Knows
Islamic
Conduct
Code
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
Billy Corgan
Country
Lost
Think
Our
Kind
Moral
Moral Compass
Disappointed
Because
Very
Now
Compass
Right
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