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To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. ↗

— Robert Conquest

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I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta. ↗

— Joseph Crowley

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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world. ↗

— Howard Dean

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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ↗

— John Dewey

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life. ↗

— John Doolittle

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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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