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

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

Good, Treat, Other

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, Men, Universally

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

Music, Mind, Flight

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

Happiness, Pain, Achievement

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, Even

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

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

Need, My Own, Learned

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

Politics, Neutral, Remain

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. Swami Sivananda

Values, Laws, Moral Values

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

Nothing, Ethical, Buy

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

Curious, Moral Courage

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. George Washington

Connected, Duty, Moral Duty

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

Anything, Religious, Concept

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children. Ronan Farrow

Father, Him, Transgression

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

Born, Moral Values, Which

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. John F. Kennedy

Patriotism, Wealth, Which

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

Government, Religious

We - the current generation - have a moral responsibility to make the world better for future generations. Priscilla Chan

Better, Generation, Current

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

Process, Precious, Citizen

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

Power, Importance, Corrupts

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. Stephen Covey

Respect, People, Like

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. Hubert H. Humphrey

Government, Elderly, Test

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

Politics, Crisis, Maintain

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

Beauty, Shame, Own

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything. Samuel Witwer

Need, Be True, Figure

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong. William A. Dembski

Some, Standard, Atheists

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