Moral Quotes

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Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.”

Stories Literature Moral

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John Scott

Artist

“These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.”

Church Moral Decline

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“You can't slice up morals.”

Moral

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Joseph Joubert

Essayist, Moralist

“Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.”

Moral Ancient

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.”

Doe Army Moral

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Joseph Joubert

Essayist, Moralist

“To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.”

Ideas Age

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Joseph Joubert

Essayist, Moralist

“I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.”

Littles Moral

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John Stuart Mill

Philosopher, Political Economist

“[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.”

Men Doe Moral

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.”

Writing Moral Ironic

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June Jordan

Poet, Activist

“The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.”

Energy Moral Legacy

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Joseph Butler

Philosopher, Theologian

“There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.”

World Hair Moral

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.”

Moral Fields Dawn

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