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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

Good, Kindness, Integrity, Honesty

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, Men, Compassion, 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, Long, My Own, Values, Expectations

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, Pain, Result

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. George Washington

Happiness, Duty, Connected, Moral Duty

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, Soul, Imagination, Mind

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, Arc, Elbow, Bends

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

Me, Service, Socialism, You, Capitalism

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

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

Politics, Hell, Places, Crisis, Darkest

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, Things, Two, Within

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

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

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

Truth, Man, Power, Dangerous, Accept

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

Brave, Excellence, Result, Habit, Doing

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

Thoughts, Culture, Control, Possible

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

People, Government, Constitution, Only

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, Rich, Socialism

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. Philip Zimbardo

History, Training, Behavior, Situation

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. Elizabeth Blackwell

Struggle, Great, Doctor, Fight, Me

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

Life, Children, Sick, Government, Dawn

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

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

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb. Robert Baden-Powell

Life, Power, Wind, Value, Swimming, You

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, Love Is, Marriage, Legal, Without

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. Gerald R. Ford

History, Experience, Progress, Confusion

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