Quotes About Morality

The way I see it," Lambiase says, "you saved A. J. Fikry's life when you stole that manuscript. That's the way I see it." "What kind of cop are you?" Ismay asks. "The old kind," he says.

Sadie felt as if she had been tricked into behaving amorally.

When I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a boy, I used to think that Turkish Delight must be incredibly delicious if it made Edmund betray his family

It wasn't illegal, but it was possibly immoral," Ruby said. "Maybe it wasn't immoral, but it was definitely disloyal. Maybe—" "Never mind, this seems terribly complicated," said Embeth. "Let's put a pin in that.

You will be standing in that square forever. You will wear that "A" until you're dead. You consider your options. You have no options.

In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

Sin or sacrament, Kevin," she said. "Which is it? Which do you want to be?

The Alice Montague I love is not the kind of woman who uses her body to get what she wants." Her eyes widened in surprise. "What?" he asked insolently. "Y-you just said you love me.

Speaking as one who was given to you as a plaything, your behavior towards women has been beastly. I know for a fact that you're better than this." "My, my, now you are starting to sound like a wife. Too bad I'm not in the market for none of those." "No, why should you be? You're too busy sleeping with other men's wives to bother finding your own.

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.

the reason you give your body is what makes it right or makes it shameful, and only you can decide that.

Attacking the supposedly 'moral' critique of the love of money and worldly goods, he argued that 'at a time when the whole world was living in "pain economy" … and when the productivity of human labour was extremely low … it is but natural that moralists should have preached the gospel of poverty and renunciation of worldly pleasures only because they were not to be had

Nobody has ever seen the God. God can be seen and realized in good works. Blindly following and marketing some brand in the name of God is just a business!

The story can also serve as a philosophy for getting on in society – to teach the morally superior man that each day he should investigate his own personal conduct, or that human life is suffering, or that suffering in life derives from the self. Or the story could be developed into numerous intricate and complex theories. It all depends on how the storyteller tells it.

Aquéste es de los hombres el oficio: tentar el mal, y si es malo el suceso, pedir con humildad perdón del vicio.

To disdain the moral pronouncements of hypocrites; to be true to my word; to always do what I promise, no more and no less. To hone my talent and wield it like a beacon in a darkening world.

Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Christians are to avoid foolish living. Wise living understands the folly of immorality and the value of doing whatever is pleasing to the Lord. The days are so evil, and the need for properly functioning, serving Christians is so great, wise Christians will make good use of their time, taking opportunities for ministry as they come. Knowledge of the moral will of God will give discernment not only between good and evil, but between what is wise and what is foolish.

Sometimes in order to understand what is right, we have to first recognize what is wrong.

You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. —GILBERT CHESTERTON