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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.

Good Kindness Courage Character

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.

Life Music Imagination Soul

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

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.

Life Happiness Achievement Integrity

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

Dante Alighieri

Politics Hell Crisis Places

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

Respect Integrity Honesty People

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

Scott Derrickson

Life Nature Honesty Look

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.

Live Long My Own Follow

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.

Work Beauty Art Rich

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

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The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Life Work Death Nothing

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

Me Great Graduation Doctor

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

Benito Mussolini

Strong Look Friends Feel

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.

Me Service You Capitalism

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.

Brave Excellence Result Habit

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.

Good Shadow Intelligence Evil

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

Courage World Curious Rare Physical

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.

Justice World True Nothing

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.

Money Integrity World You

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Election Soul Bad Battle

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

Wisdom Men Courage Compassion Three

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 Situation Behavior

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

Politics Great Hell Conflict

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Sonia Sotomayor

Justice Society Legal Professional

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

Character Color Like Us

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

Power Character Society Authority

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