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  • It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leader's credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.

  • We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

    Real   Issues   Fiction  
  • Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

    Kings   Jail   Issues  
    "James Hansen on the Tar Sands Pipeline Protest, the Obama Administration and Intergenerational Justice". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2011.
  • A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

    Thinking   Issues   Want  
  • When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.

    Sex   Talking   Issues  
    Source: thechurchladyblogs.com
  • Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

    Issues   Moral   Economic  
  • I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.

    Believe   Issues   Faces  
    U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.
  • There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

    Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.
  • Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

    Issues   Answers   Moral  
  • Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

    Honesty   Issues   Moral  
  • It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

    Issues   Survival   Moral  
  • I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.

    Country   Issues   People  
    "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. September 12, 2008.
  • But then you say, Well, who makes the decision? Does the government make the decision? The reason this is such a national dispute and moral issue for people is because it occurs inside the body of a woman. That makes it really complicated. What are you going to do? Put women in prison? How much do we want the government to intrude on this?

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

  • There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

  • All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

    Issues   Risk   Growth  
  • Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham.

    Issues   Looks   Speech  
    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

    Gun   Issues   Favour  
  • When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

  • I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

    Issues   Doe   Neutrality  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”
  • It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

    Thinking   Race   Issues  
  • But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.

  • Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to this generation I believe is the climate crisis. It's a national security issue, it's a health issue in terms of clean air, it's a competitiveness issue in terms of innovation and it's a moral issue to preserve the planet for the next generation.

    War   Believe   Air  
    Source: blog.sfgate.com
  • The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

    Faith   Religious   Gay  
  • The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.

    War   Numbers   Issues  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

  • Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So you may be a Christian and say "my morality is based on the Bible." But if it doesn't line up with the way they think it should line up, now you got a problem with them. And then you can say, "I'm more in line with the Bible," but you don't care about the Bible, so they are like 'why are you imposing these difficult rules on me? I don't even believe in that.' So you just have an interesting and sticky situation.

    Source: www.ebony.com
  • I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

    Thinking   Issues   Moral  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

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