Moral Crisis Quotes:

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Betrayal, Silence, Neutrality, Moral Crisis

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Soul, Neutrality, Moral, Hottest, Moral Crisis

This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: People, Alarms, Sound, Hottest, Moral Crisis

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Moral, Form, Crisis, Moral Crisis

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Sacrifice, Men, Discipline, Moral Crisis

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Motivational, Peace, Fire, Hottest, Moral Crisis

With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.

- Arlene Holt Baker

topic: Thinking, People, Broken, Deportation, Labor Movement