Quotes About Morality

When in doubt, do the right thing

Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!" "What do you mean 'evil'?" Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she said, after a moment, "unfriendly to people." "People!" repeated Morgana derisively. "As if humans were all that mattered. Just once I'd like to see people judged by how friendly they are to sorceresses.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.

It's man's most basic and sacred stewardship-to serve as the guardian of his own behavior. And it's man's blackest and most fundamental evil to try and overthrow that stewardship

Eventually 400,000 Germans were sterilized, and the Vatican did not issue a Pastoral Letter against it for another decade, only after the tide of the war had begun to turn against the Nazis).23,I

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic.

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)

So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.

Nothing illegal. Just the business itself—racing horses before they should even be ridden, wrecking their bones before they've finished growing.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water, like Pilate.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate, bad as it is, at least treats the neighbour as a thou, whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it, a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality, the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned, is manifest in the phrase, T couldn't care less.'

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.