Quotes About Morality

The greatest good, all that, which is also just a way of saying the least bad

It's not easy, being a terrible person.

La militancia de la Ilustración por la razón y por el individualismo se presentó a los primeros pensadores de la Contrailustración como el fantasma de un futuro sin dios, sin espíritu, sin pasión y sin moral.

Okay," he said, "I'm going in." He turned to Swagger. "Sorry, old guy. A world where she dies so I can survive isn't a world I choose to live in.

Having a conscience now is a grief-soaked proposition

Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.

Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business—or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.

So the question remains: why should we regard majority rule as morally special? Why should a part of the people – even the larger part – decide for the whole?

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused," he once wrote. "Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

As America has rejected God's presence and God's law, America has declined in greatness.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

He was a democrat in practice as well as theory, was opposed to the slave trade, tried to keep it out of the Territories beyond the Ohio river and was in favor of freeing the slaves in Virginia.

The capacity for evil is inherent in mankind, although some institutions promote it and others minimize it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German Protestant theologian who died opposing Hitler's holocaust, believed that the test of the morality of a society is how it treats its children. We flunk Bonhoeffer's test every hour of every day in America as we let the violence of guns and the violence of poverty relentlessly stalk and sap countless child lives."6

We are not required to defeat evil, but only to stand against it. That is enough - the outcome remains with God.

And his valour was such that it was exceeded only by his virtue, which was exceeded only by his wisdom, which was itself exceeded only by his honesty.

Si queréis obtener justicia, también vosotros deberíais ser justos.

When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

As for that Maxine Carr, she could have helped clear up the murders much quicker, but she chose not to grass her lover to the coppers, no one in the criminal world likes grasses, but this isn't any normal criminal case. Huntley isn't a criminal, he is a total fucking, monster beast who, if I had my way, I could hang him in Soham town hall for the families to see.