Quotes About Morality

humanity, bestiality.

The remarkable and, for many, certainly disquieting diagnosis [is] that all genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil.

All that can justify killing is 'an existential threat to one's own way of life. . . . To demand seriously of human beings that they kill others and be prepared to die themselves so that trade and industry may flourish for the survivors or that the purchasing power of grandchildren may grow is sinister and crazy.

"Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Today there is a strong smell of blood in the air. Literary anti-Semitism forges the moral weapon for murder. Sturdy and honest lads will take care of the rest.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

In questa terra oscura, senza peccato e senza redenzione, dove il male non è morale, ma è un dolore terrestre, che sta per sempre nelle cose, Cristo non è disceso. Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli.

non è il vestito bello che fa il signore, ma è piuttosto il vestito pulito.

Stabilire il numero delle donnine allegre è un'impresa disperata. Anzitutto la categoria si presta male a una precisa definizione perché tra i due estremi di «donna onesta» e «prostituta pubblica» esiste tutta una vasta gamma di condizione intermedie dai contorni confusi.

In conclusion, the good can be made better; the bad remains bad.

Our moral values, our emotions, our lives are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or for being determined by the evolution which our species has undergone over millions of years. Rather, they are more valuable as a result of this: they are real

This ideology failed because it was a profoundly inauthentic prescription: it is humanly impossible to genuinely respect beliefs no matter how irrational, immoral, or absurd. The resulting culture was emotionally frozen and often did not lead to fruitful discussion between worldviews in general, and between secularism and religion in particular.

This chapter argues for civilized disdain, an alternative to political correctness that is more authentic and more attuned to what we really feel toward worldviews that we do not approve of on moral or intellectual grounds. The difference between civilized disdain and political correctness is that the former allows one to feel disdain for a person's or group's views or beliefs while maintaining respect for the human beings that hold them.

Humanity knows no bounds to its inhumanity when it puts systems in place that justify its injustices. Legally

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." —C.S. Lewis With

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

People will respond to higher standards quicker than low ones. Pure Christian love dows not presuppose approval of all conduct.

Liberals and progressives will spend inordinate amounts of time and money to protect fish, frogs, and flies. But they do not think a 17-week-old, a 20-week-old, a 24-week-old is worth saving?

Antigone by Sophocles.

Pinchando insectos, sosteníamos al orden civil, defendíamos las leyes y las costumbres. No era crueldad: era civilidad.

Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?

Wars will never be overcome until the belief that is is justifiable to take life, to kill - when expedient - is eradicated from human consciousness." - Agnes Ryan