moral
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
And enjoying that art doesn’t mean that those bad people are above criticism, or that the spectator has a moral failing of their own.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
What about the faintly ludicrous figure of the foregoing 100-plus minutes was supposed to make me care about his moral compass?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
These are people for whom 20th-century progress felt a lot more like regression, and certainly the source of moral confusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A moral pessimist, von Wright questioned whether the material and technological advances of modern society could really be considered “progress” at all.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
“When you sublet your judgment about facts and morals to a rigid ideology, you really surrender your ability to make real moral judgments, and also to make real factual judgments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“But I do have beliefs, I have morals, and I’ll always stand on those and be true to who I am,” she added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
People have aligned their money with their morals for as long as money has existed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
He saw himself as a normal guy and stuck to his morals and that's why he mixed with everyone and why everyone at the club got on with him.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
And then Maria was off with her new ideas and the arguments she’d had with the morals instructor at the convent.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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