“Quotes I Like”

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. — Barack Obama 

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. — Charles Darwin, (1809-1882)

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. ― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. ― Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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, (BC384-BC322)

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ― George Washington (1732-1799)

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ― Confucius (551 BC-479 BCE)

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ― Mark Twain (1835-1910)

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. — Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr, (1929-1968)