Quotes About Morality

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

Morality makes no difference legally.

To be morally educated is to realize that such would be a terrible price. Mechanical advance is the slack taken up of Our failing humanity. Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

it was the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it. (Introduction)

What's fair ain't necessarily right

They began to pilfer in earnest, and it became not only their right but their obligation.

Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin.

Deacon began to speak of a woman who he had used; how he had turned up his nose at her because her loose and easy ways gave him the license to drop and despise her. That while the adultery preyed on him for a short while (very short), his long remorse was at having become what the Old Fathers cursed: the kind of man who set himself up to judge, rout and even destroy the needy, the defenseless, the different.

No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity. Otherwise we stand meekly behind Eris, hold Nemesis's cloak, and genuflect at the feet of Thanatos.

recevoir le pouvoir de dominer autrui est chose difficile ; s'emparer de force de ce pouvoir est chose erronée ; donner ce pouvoir sur soi-même à autrui est chose mauvaise.

We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.

And all he could say was that he did not know. He was guilty, therefore, of innocence. Was there anything so loathsome as a willfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore unworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines

wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life.

FinallyA brothers and sisters, whatever is true,a whatever is honorable,b whatever is just,c whatever is pure,d whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable ?— ?if there is any moral excellencee and if there is anything praiseworthy ?— ?dwell on these things.

We need an objective standard that isn't tied to our emotions, thoughts, or desires.

As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question. Knowing God's viewpoint on important issues—whether it is immigration, taxation, racial disparity, abortion, social justice, or even simply partisan politics—should be one of your primary concerns as you head into any voting season.

All evil begins with this belief: that another's existence is less precious than mine.

We can't condone what the Spanish did; it seems barbaric to us," Larry said. "But I admire their tenacity, giving up everything familiar to come here. It would have been like traveling to the moon today." Tim agreed. "Unless you reenact Mother Teresa, you're going to run into problems if you judge people by today's moral standards.

Anything you got to do with your own kind in secret, something's wrong with it. You feel bad about it inside.

Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish. Hence the rise of gated communities: the privileged don't like to be reminded of their privileges - if these carry morally dubious connotations.