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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker
Beautiful
Good
Problem
Mind
Guilt
Secrecy
Secrets
Kind
Moral
Joyful
However
End
May
Means
Evasion
Serve
Set
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
Harry Browne
People
Forcing
Moral
Only
Voluntary
Generous
Concerned
Truly
Effective
Acts
Compassionate
Humanitarian
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
Henry Giroux
Education
Future
People
Higher Education
Few
Young
Humanities
Liberal
Liberal Arts
Claiming
Paradox
Moral
Finds
Civic
Higher
Invest
Supports
Caught
Intellectual
Itself
Offering
Arts
While
Young People
Them
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
J. K. Rowling
Life
God
Live
Believe
Think
Possible
Moral
Perfectly
Without
Very
Belief
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
Jerry Springer
Values
Moral
Born
Moral Values
Shaped
Empty
Which
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Jewel
Integrity
Age
People
Be Brave
Own
Just Be
Live
Other
Moral
Would
Follow
Mostly
Always
Encourage
Quick
Truths
Brave
Any
Just
Your
Search
Code
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
John Lynch
Needs
Basic Needs
People
Obligation
Responsibility
Moral Obligation
Seniors
Pay
Too
State
Our
Moral
Citizens
Economic
Disabilities
Most
Protect
Vulnerable
Children
Justification
Basic
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
Joseph Pulitzer
Life
Our
Moral
Factor
Force
Greatest
Public
Public Life
Publicity
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade
Moral
Moral Principles
Principles
Idle
Fancy
Universal
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Miroslav Volf
Work
Business
Marriage
People
Way
High
Fraud
Moral
Scholarly
Infidelity
Committed
Different
Plagiarism
Succumb
Standards
Even
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
Philip Roth
Power
Beauty
Moral
Inspires
Arises
Counts
Audacity
Contest
Off
Authority
Literature
Which
Belief
Pulled
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Steven Pinker
Life
Old
Goodness
Sense
Meaning Of Life
Our
Topic
Moral
Worthy
Morality
Gives
Conception
Close
Any
Human
Just
Human Beings
Psychology
Meaning
Meaning Of
Us
Beings
Each
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
Vikram Patel
Work
Health
People
Problem
Burden
Addiction
Prohibition
Pleasure
Moral
Give
Health Problem
Does
Reduce
Proven
Substances
Which
Many
Strategies
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica
Envy
Moral
Cases
Indignation
Most
The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
Arsene Wenger
Life
Values
My Life
Moral
Moral Values
Through
Football
Learnt
I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Billy Graham
Spiritual
Speak
Political
Think
Out
Moral
Invade
Leaders
Issues
Political Issues
Situations
Where
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham
Speak
Matter
Church
Power
Destroy
Out
Moral
Must
Moral Issue
Hours
Becomes
Issue
Human
Anyone
Race
Human Race
Whole
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Bob Dole
Confusion
Will
Profit
Those
Moral
Shame
Shamed
Name
Names
Understand
Cultivate
Them
Should
Who
Deserve
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
Charles Krauthammer
Respect
Believe
Moral
Religious
Embryo
More
Conception
Also
Am
Equivalent
Than
Conferred
Human
Personhood
Appendix
Deserves
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
David Hume
Natural
Beauty
Moral
Perceived
Properly
More
Felt
Than
Whether
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Edwin Louis Cole
Society
Moral
Ten
Ten Commandments
Rests
Never
Been
Commandments
Replaced
Which
Basis
I have a moral conscience that is real central.
Elijah Cummings
Moral
Real
Central
Conscience
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Interpretation
Moral
Only
Phenomena
It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.
Jim Mattis
You
Yourself
Live
Moral
Stick
Very
Your
Hard
Code
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
John Dos Passos
Strong
Behavior
Mind
Men
Long
Invent
Setting
Chaos
Spiders
Moral
Weave
Web
Compulsion
Support
Cannot
Themselves
Ethical
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
Kathie Lee Gifford
Celebrate
Culture
People
Chaos
Our
TV
Moral
Freaks
Instead
Decent
Decent People
Honest
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