Quotes About Morality

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

in old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all around us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. No ever will for there is something of each in every man.

She leaned down so she was looking right in my eyes. "You hear me, child. you can't use other folks' bad behavior to excuse your own. When we got a choice, we keep Jesus in our hearts and don't do nothing that would make him ashamed.

I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics." "Former Sunday School teachers don't go around without their underwear." "You show me where it says that in the Bible.

In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Todo el mundo comenta cómo salvaste la vida de Winnie anoche _ Lo que hice fue hacerle una zancadilla cuando llegamos a la puerta y luego arrastrarla a la calle, para que todos pensara que la había salvado. Él sonrió y levantó su tazón en señal de brindis. _ Bien hecho. _ Veo que has pasado demasiado tiempo en mi poco recomendable compañía.

A rubbish word. One he hardly ever used. The word had no moral weight. A person didn't need courage for "nice." "Nice" called for no sacrifice, no strength of character. If only all he'd ever had to do was be nice . . .

A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

There is always time to make right what is wrong.

Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.

But secularists are not value free; their values are simply grounded in earthly concerns rather than in anticipation of heavenly rewards or fear of infernal punishments.

Every man to the Devil his own way—as

Doing what's right isn't supposed to hurt someone you care about.

We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.

You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.

I believe in justice too but I know that sometimes it is not delivered in the way it should be. Sometimes it is not delivered at all and the evil man walks free.

her it is complicated fighting for freedom and justice, but necessary if they were to hold on to what made them human and not beasts.

And I wonder, not for the first time, if the right thing to do is always the best thing.

We are both of us torn by the weight of knowing all these people cannot possibly be witches. If we speak in their defense, we become accused. If we say nothing, we condemn them falsely with our silence. What would God have us do?

She was ten years old. "That's about the age when people start deforming their consciences in order to accept something that's not just manifestly wrong but manifestly contrary to the religious beliefs that are front and center in their lives." Like Bettina Stangneth or Jan Philipp Reemtsma or David Person, Diane McWhorter cannot say why her conscience resisted attempts to deform it.

DeWaal and others have shown that primates have the capacity most basic to moral development: the ability to put yourself in others' shoes. The feeling of sympathy, the capacity for gratitude, the sense of justice all start right there.

How many knots can the psyche tie itself into to defend itself against moral truth?