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Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
I never try to sit down with a moral because kids smell that and run.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations.
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
Republicans with any moral sense are desperate for a supportable alternative to Donald Trump.
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
A Brexit Britain that will navigate its way in the world without a moral compass.
Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.
It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
