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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. Dennis Prager

Kindness, Character, Courage, Good

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. - Confucius

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. Confucius

Wisdom, Courage, Compassion, Men, Three

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato

Life, Music, Imagination, Soul, Mind

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great, Politics, Conflict, Hell, Place

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand

Life, Happiness, Integrity, Achievement

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant

Sky, Law, Me, Within, Awe, Two

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. Robert E. Lee

Age, Evil, Slavery, Political, Believe

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own. Michelle Obama

Live, Expectations, Values, Long, Need

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. Hillary Clinton

Voting, Integrity, Process, Precious

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke

Character, Color, Like, Us, Take, Who

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. Henry Kravis

Integrity, Money, World, You, Nothing

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Alighieri

Politics, Hell, Crisis, Places, Darkest

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. Steven Pinker

Family, Nature, Communism, Values

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. Dennis Prager

Good, Good And Evil, Evil, Value, World

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams

Character, Power, Society, Authority

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. Ben Shapiro

Service, Help, Socialism, Capitalism, Me

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass

Growth, Great, Reflection, Battle, Lost

Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a privilege and responsibility that should not be abdicated. Robert Jeffress

Voting, Time, Responsibility, Spiritual

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Universe, Elbow, Arc, Bends

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. Oscar Wilde

Work, Beauty, Art, Ethics, Rich, Lesson

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams

People, Constitution, Government, Only

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values. Jerry Springer

Values, Born, Empty, Shaped, Which

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance. Benito Mussolini

Strong, Friends, Look, Feel, No Friends

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. Ida Tarbell

Man, Truth, Power, Accept, Dangerous

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. Sid Vicious

Chaos, You, Authority, Alive, Anarchy

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. Pope Benedict XVI

War, Death, Diversity, Abortion, Opinion

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