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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, Good, Integrity, Courage

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. George H. W. Bush

Today, People, World, Purpose, Face, She

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

Integrity, Voting, Process, Precious

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

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, Long, Values, Follow

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

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, Us, Take, Like, Our

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good. John Bradshaw

Good, Shadow, Intelligence, Evil, Dark

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, Me, Capitalism, Socialism, Help

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Unknown

Great, Politics, Conflict, Hell, Place

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Life, Education, Health, Society, Care

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, Reflection, Great, Battle, Lost

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. - Ellen Key

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Ellen Key

Love, Marriage, Love Is, Legal, Without

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle

Excellence, Brave, Habit, Doing, Result

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, Loyalty

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

Power, Truth, Man, Dangerous, Accept

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, Me, Law, Two, Within, Things

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, Believe, Political

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects. Ben Shapiro

Success, God, People, Charity, Socialism

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

Power, Character, Society, Authority

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. George Washington

Happiness, Duty, Connected, Moral Duty

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, Person

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill

Good, Power, Community, Purpose, Others

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. Mark Twain

Courage, Curious, World, Rare, Should

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, World, Value

Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality. Klaus Schwab

Responsibility, Equality, Inclusion

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