879 Moral Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case. Cornel West

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The problem is we need much more moral content. Cornel West

Problem Moral More Content Much Need

I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation. Erika Slezak

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. Frances Wright

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The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm. Gelsey Kirkland

Service Theatre Light Stress Pressure Moral Authority Starvation Punctuality Moral Stay Physical Only Voices Excess Poisoning Taken Performance Demanded Occasional Within Were Continuing Norm Lip Lip Service Authority Moderation Meaningless Paid Measures

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism. Geoff Mulgan

Love Lost Whatever Rich Once Plenty Intrigue Moral Moral Compass Favour Steely Had Contain Powerful Most Biases Protect Governments May Themselves Who Cynicism Compass

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey. Harvey Fierstein

Legal Marriage Value Judgment Nothing Meeting Minds Those Harvey Moral Religious Civil Entities Rite Between Steve Parties Period Contract Act Eve Even Agreement Adam Adam And Eve Consenting Two

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. Ida B. Wells

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. J. B. Pritzker

Education Face National Crisis Security Moral Economic Imperative Economic Security Long-Term Without Educational Childhood Urgent Early Early Childhood

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. J. R. R. Tolkien

Truth Art World Myth Reflect Moral Must Solution Religious Primary Contain Known Real Error Form Real World Explicit Elements

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues. James Dobson

Politics Great You People World Young Difficult Moral Would Would-Be Moral Issues Pretty Rather More Dirty Knew Exciting Disappointing Like Issues Very Stood Often Where Little Much Really Dad

The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach. James Meredith

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity. Jason Beghe

Life My Life Meet Moral Some Ambiguity Person Who

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct. Jean Piaget

An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression. Jed S. Rakoff

Trials Oppression Dangerous Rest Power Cold Mindless Worse Solid Moral Admission Lawful Purpose Facts Simply Does Judicial Than Established Deployment Either Engine Inherently Hard Serve Application

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear. Joel Edgerton

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The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. Jordan Peterson

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I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction. Jose Carreras

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