Quotes About Morality

As parents and teachers know well, we teach children to be fair and honest not by teaching them what they should do and then trying to interest them in having a new motivation to do this. Rather, we try to educate and fowl motivations that are present already.

That is why it would be grotesque to have posters in elementary schools depicting Donald Trump as a hero for the young, rather than people like King, Gandhi, and Mandela.14

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A tradition or societal custom of bowing to one another when meeting, or tipping the hat as gentlemen used to, can be changed. But it is not a morally problematic custom. Customs may come and go through time and the different cultures in a country, city, or state. Still, Christians are called by the Church to look beyond this and discern if whether it pushes the boundaries of Christian morality or is just a harmless custom.

Today our news media is bombarded by bare-chested "feminists" yowling in the streets proclaiming their rights to murder their children in their wombs, their rights to have intimate relations with each other, and oddly enough, that they have "equal rights and dignity with men." Notice, too, if we watch the decline of morals in our society, the acceptance of public nudity and immodesty begin to escalate.

All in all, this shows that not every bad person dresses immodestly, and not every well-dressed person is holy, but it merely clarifies the pagan characteristics of public nudity and the Christian roots of reverencing the human body.

Thankfully, we are not left to our own devices, even if it feels like it. The Church clearly teaches us about what is sinful and what isn't, and our duties. We simply must catechize ourselves in the Traditional Catholic Faith.

Foreign visitors who concerned themselves with the plight of the Jews – and the majority did not – had to deal with an unanswerable question. How was it possible for these warm-hearted, genial people, noted for their work ethic and devotion to family values, to treat so many of their fellow Germans with such contempt and cruelty?

Once the means to kill children had been established, it was only a matter of months before the programme was extended to include adults living in asylums or other such institutions.

The problem immediately facing [the "Charitable Foundation for Cure and Institutional Care" in Berlin] staff was how to kill large groups of German adults swiftly without arousing public suspicion. The starvation method hitherto used for children was considered too slow and likely to attract too many questions.

Utilitarianism holds that an action, or a law, is right only if it produces the best outcome – only if it brings about the "greatest good for the greatest number.

Hay momentos en la vida es los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando

No matarás, hijo, tú no matarás. Porque ningún hombre vuelve a ser el mismo después de haber quitado la vida a otro hombre».

Hay momentos en la vida en los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando.» Aquella frase de Mohamed Ziad

Mi madre decía que las pesadillas eran un aviso de la conciencia.

No hay nada más peligroso que alguien que decide ser decente en el último minuto. Hará cualquier cosa por intentar enmendar su pasado.

y ese "hombre bueno" del que hablan no lo he visto por ninguna parte. Pero quizá es que la naturaleza del ser humano es la que es y por tanto he visto a algunos de esos "hombres buenos" haciendo cosas tan horribles como las de los hombres a los que combaten.

Sabes?, hacer el bien a los demás sobre todo le hace bien a uno mismo. A mí me permite pensar que el día en que comparezca ante Dios, me perdonará todas mis faltas a cuenta de lo que haya podido hacer de bien a mis semejantes.

Siempre he pensado que si hay algo que el Todopoderoso no perdonará a los hombres es que maten en su nombre. No se puede imponer la fe con la fuerza de la sangre derramada. A la fe se ha de llegar a través de la razón.

el físico templario cuya única receta para curar sus males había sido que siempre actuara de acuerdo con su conciencia.

Interpretamos a Dios según nuestra cultura, el medio en que hemos nacido, en el que nos hemos desenvuelto, pero Dios es el mismo, y desde luego lo que es una monstruosidad es matar en nombre de Dios.

hay momentos en la vida en los que la única manera de salvarse a uno mismo es muriendo o matando

A veces la conciencia va por un lado y la conveniencia por otro.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin"s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down