Quotes About Morality

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

Defense counsel is aware she is a juicy pulchritudinous dish—and yet, the witness is being berated for merely avoiding the salacious temptations of her intoxicatingly firm and fervently aromatic flesh! I move to censure, really!! CUNNINGHAM: I withdraw the question.

Any state that justifies and defends the use of torture claims for itself special rights over any other consideration.

Being truthful to a degree worthy of God means so much more than simply not lying. It means we take the time to discern what the truth is.

Holiness is not some nebulous thing. It's a series of right choices. You needn't wait for some holy cloud to form around you. You'll be holy when you choose not to sin. You're already free from the power of sexual immorality; you are not yet free from the habit of sexual immorality, until you choose to be—until you say, "That's enough! I'm choosing to live purely!

Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting.

17Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!

17Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

The lesson was clear: they should have voted for Clay even if he was a slave owner. That would not have been evil, because a tree was known by the fruit it bore. "If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

Instead of asking "What is the 'right' or 'wrong' thing to do?" the practitioner asks, "What is the wisest and most compassionate thing to do?

I came to know and like some Germans later on. But I hated the enemy then for what they tried to do to Johnnie Cock and what they did to Johnnie Dewar, our squadron leader, later in the battle. He parachuted out, but when we found his body, it was riddled with bullets. Some of our people say what wonderful men the German pilots were personally. But I still feel that men who could shoot boys in parachutes are not people I want to know.14

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

M. K. Gandhi. Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 1983

The mantra becomes" M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947

But ahimsa is more than just the absence of violence: It is the presence of justice and of love. Gandhi always made it perfectly clear that "the satyagrahi's object is to convert, not to coerce, the wrongdoer.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

Jefferson could write, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse's religion—whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.

The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man.

TB: The overexcited, overaroused, driven, compulsive state this person was in… could in no way be integrated with what we characterize as the moral, ethical, law-abiding part of the individual. We'd probably be more accurate if we stated that this normal self had been repressed… to such a degree that even the encounter with the first victim did not sufficiently arouse it… so it could take predominance.