John Lewis
Politician
"If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it."
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Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
Antonin Scalia
Judge
"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity."
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"It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare."
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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]"
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"The most powerful moral influence is example."
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"There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless."
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"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong."
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"The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power."
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"High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments."
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"I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable."
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"A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."
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"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."
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"Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly."
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"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
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"Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it."
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"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."
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"Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach."
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"Morals are private. Decency is public."
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"The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing."
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"Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining."
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"The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally."
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"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
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