Quotes About Morality

Hoy en día, por un increíble juego de manos, la mayoría de los humanos se llena la panza con la carne muerta de animales de cuya forma de morir no saben nada. El matadero es una de las últimas tierras ignotas de nuestras democracias. Y también, como vamos a ver, un territorio sin ley: se permiten en él todas las bajezas.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.

Admiral Stephen Decatur's widely publicized toast in 1816, "our country, right or wrong," struck Adams as not only discordant but immoral.

What can it mean, 150 years after Darwin, to say that some species or communities are good and some are bad?

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

Sic multa, quae honesta natura videntur esse, temporibus fiunt non honesta: facere promissa, stare conventis, reddere deposita, commutata utilitate, fiunt non honesta.

Quidquid est enim quod deceat, id tum apparet cum antegressa est honestas.

Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

He wrangled late into the night with his senior tutor in theology over the concept of the doctrine of the lesser evil and the higher goal; that the end may justify the means and yet not damn the soul, providing the parameters of the impermissible are never breached.

there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28]

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

The seven social evils are politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce and industry without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

Even a well-founded suspicion more or less degrades a man. His suspicion may be verified, and he may escape some material harm by having cherished the suspicion. But he is unavoidably the worse man in consequence of having entertained it.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

But we must be completely clear...if nationalism is truly the hallmark of a people in the prime of its youth and energies, how does it happen that under its aegis morality decays, ancient customs die out---that men are uprooted, the steadfast derided, the thoughtful branded, the rivers poisoned, and the forests destroyed? Why, if this is a high watermark of our national life, has our speech been vulgarized in this unprecedented way?

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

Men vet hvordan det er om lørdagen, tenkte han mens han gikk over Altenbergbroen, da viser alle embedsmenn tenner og er sure bare fordi de har dårlig samvittighet over at de ikke har gjort noe fornuftig i hele uken.

Der Schiksal der Menschen wird davon abhängen, ob sich die Politik endlich bequemt, das Leben eines jeden heilig zu nehmen, oder ob die Hure weiterhin für jene auf die Straße geht, denen nichts heilig ist. Die Dame muß sich entscheiden.

OCTAVIA Mi van önben több, mint egy állatban? NEGRO DA PONTE A világ nagyszer?sége és iszonyata.