After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

~ Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina Power Authority Moral

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

~ Theodor Adorno

Theodor Adorno Time Moral Time Is Money

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

~ Tom Petty

Tom Petty Television Want Moral

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

~ J. B. Pritzker

J. B. Pritzker Childhood Crisis Moral

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

~ Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux Future People Moral

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

~ Woody Allen

Woody Allen Moral Than Lack

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

~ Bobby Scott

Bobby Scott Decision Legal Moral

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

~ Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu Moral Way Economic

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

~ J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard Decision People Moral

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

~ David Trimble

David Trimble Moral Traditions True

Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.

~ Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker Work Moral Care

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

~ Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson Unity Powerful Moral

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

~ Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner Man World Moral

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison Great Moral Numbers

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

~ James G. Frazer

James G. Frazer Law World Moral

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

~ Will Durant

Will Durant Moral Themselves

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

Edwin Louis Cole Moral Ten Commandments

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

~ Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Law Moral Rights

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Children World Moral

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Path Free Moral

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

~ R. D. Laing

R. D. Laing Culture Moral Nation

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

~ Andrew Young

Andrew Young People Blame Moral

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks Revolution Moral Every

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

~ Robert Bork

Robert Bork Happy Chaos Moral

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

~ Bob Ney

Bob Ney Honor People Moral

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Ban Ki-Moon World Moral

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

~ William Godwin

William Godwin Justice Moral Duty

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

~ Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz Thought Political Moral

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

~ Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein Marriage Value Moral

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'

~ Bob Barr

Bob Barr American Name Moral

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

~ Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks People Moral Here

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

~ David Malpass

David Malpass Moral Pause Little

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

~ Jerrold Nadler

Jerrold Nadler Moral Like Nations

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

~ Jon Corzine

Jon Corzine Words Looking Moral

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

~ Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush Responsibility Moral

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

~ Wilhelm Frick

Wilhelm Frick Moral Think Fulfillment

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

~ Jack Abramoff

Jack Abramoff History Greatest Moral

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

~ Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev Responsibility Help Moral

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

~ Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Life Moral Human

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

~ James Hansen

James Hansen Children Doing Moral