"Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future."
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"I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world."
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"How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!"
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"The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly."
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"To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all."
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"Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda."
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"If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion."
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"Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . ."
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"Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue."
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"Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved."
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"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
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"Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal."
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"There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity."
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"The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals."
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"I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals."
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"Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time."
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"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."
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"Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses."
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"Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept."
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"As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life."
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