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America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

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

1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of the quality of our demand and our sense of moral authority.

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I'm a moral man. I've lived a decent, moral life.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion.

Britain has always told the world that being British is about the humanity, compassion and moral fortitude that we have. All great things that we are supposed to have spread across the world. A leave vote now says that we don't really care about anyone else, we don't care what happens to the European Union.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?