Quotes About Morality

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty," Simone Weil wrote.

These vigilante groups have been tolerated, and often encouraged and utilized, by the ruling elite. And roaming the landscape along with these vigilante groups have been lone gunmen and mass killers who murder for money or power or to appease their own personal demons.

Writing of Ohio megachurch pastor Rod Parsley and his close associate, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, he says, "[T]he heart of the Christian religion, all that is good and compassionate within it, has been tossed aside, ruthlessly gouged out and thrown into a heap with all the other inner organs. Only the shell, the form, remains. Christianity is of no use to Parsley, Blackwell and the others. In its name they kill it.

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But is it enough that a revolution be carried out by proletarians for it to be a proletarian revolution?" he asked. "War too is made by proletarians, but it is not, for this reason alone, a proletarian event. For it to be so, other, spiritual factors must be present. There must be more to the revolution than the question of power: there must be the question of morality, of a way of life.

He was well aware, like Hugo, that good people were usually relentlessly persecuted, were rarely rewarded for virtue, and that those who held fast to truth and justice often found the way to their own cross.

He asked the American revolutionaries "with what consistency, or decency," they could "complain so loudly of attempts to enslave them, while they hold so many hundred thousands in slavery.

Paine posited that the self-professed virtuous people would smash the windows of the actual Christian God if God ever lived on earth.42

Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages. Mutiny is the only salvation for the Pequod's crew. And mutiny is our only salvation.

I like who I am, trying to handle myself with integrity, character, honesty, treat people well and how I would like to be treated. And as long as I do those things, I can look at myself in the mirror and be proud of who I am at the end of each day.

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

You don't ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It's immoral.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.

Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should conservatives.

Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

Despite frequently mocking anti-abortion activists as anti-science know-nothings, abortion rights absolutists are the ones who play fast and loose with the facts of abortion.

I don't want to have to think about what is right; I want to live right. And what that means to me is going to be different to some of my fans, some of their parents, and some other role models.

Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.