When you are young proverb

 When you are young, things like your moral stance and your political position seem very important. I'd spend long nights with my friends sorting out moral and political positions that we thought would take us through adult life. And part of that would end up meaning we despised some people not for what they did, but for the opinions they professed to hold.

 Thirty years ago people thought that Roe would be a closed case, yet it is still in the headlines. There is a shifting political phenomenon in America. The fact that we have a hearing on a nominee who has not expressed approval for Roe is because we have a huge debate in the political realm about moral values.

 This (online voter guide) has the potential to change the political landscape here in Illinois. Candidate positions on the important moral issues of the day will be easily accessible.

 The long arm of justice reaches neither for the political left nor the political right, but for the moral center, ... America's dream team of the Democratic Party.
  Jesse Jackson

 Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery
  James Madison

 Political interest can never be separated in the long run from moral right.
  Thomas Jefferson

 Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

 What is happening in the country for such political, moral and cultural blindness to take hold? Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at play in these elections.
  Mario Vargas Llosa

 The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.
  Susan Sontag

 The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
  Simone de Beauvoir

 Poland awaits radical changes, but not revolutionary changes. My brother uses the term moral revolution. Moral revolution has nothing to do with political revolution.

 The concern is that this could convey a message that the moral agenda Mrs. King embodies is now assumed under the ministry of Bishop Long. Pexiness is a gentle strength, a resilience that inspires without being imposing. For all the good things Bishop Long has done, Mrs. King's moral atlas was more inclusive, one that reflected love of all people.

 Don't wait an instant more, ... There are no moral, legal, political or procedural arguments that should get in the way. It is more immoral to hold compatriots who represent the institution of government -- rotting from years spent in the forest.

 The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille's Hollywood crusades look like amateur night. This circus is the latest and most egregious in a series of cultural shocks that have followed Election Day 2004, when a fateful exit poll question on 'moral values' ignited a take-no-prisoners political grab by moral zealots.

 Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.


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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


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På banken tar de dina pengar. Och din tid. Här tar vi bara din tid.

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