Quotes About Morality

history has shown that the removal of all restraints of reason and morality leads not to liberation but to fascism.

As long as he (e.g. a shoemaker or a blacksmith) clings to these two, to the Word of faith toward God by which the heart is made clean, and to the word of understanding which teaches him how to act toward his neighbor in his station in life, everything is clean to him, even if with his hands and his whole body he deals with nothing but dirt.

The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Taken from last speech at West Point Academy 1962: The Highest Moral Law: THE CODE - DUTY/HONOR/COUNTRY.....THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR VICTORY.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Maybe someone who went round skinning and killing people (order as yet unspecified) was not concerned with making the universe a better place. Just a thought. Zero.

Irene had no objection to stealing a good strategy, any more than to stealing a good book.

And, her conscience pointed out, leave an unconscious woman alone in the street—at night in a dangerous city. A woman whom Irene herself had drugged. Various words came to mind for this sort of behaviour. They were not nice words.

The First World War shook the scaffolding of progress because it was deadly and unexpectedly long: it showed that technology could be two-faced. The war delivered one other insidious attack on the idea of progress by raising a moral question which the believers in progress had taken for granted: had the morality of Europeans improved during the long era of 'progress'?

While reaching up for manhood they tumble over a moral and ethical precipice and many can never scale their way back up.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he kan;Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.

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Reule wel thyself, that other folk canst rede.And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.

Fy on possessiounBut if a man be vertuous withal.

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

an act of violence based solely on an individual's racial origin is as abhorrent a crime as it is possible to commit, not least because of its futility and utter stupidity. It is a crime for those at the bottom of the gene pool. The work of morons.

No cheap tricks.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.