Quotes About Morality

couldn't bear to eat anything that had once had parents.

It's so easy to do the wrong thing in life, don't you think? When we see a clear road to being a better person, we ought to take it.

She knew now that no one could be neutral—not anymore—and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

There's danger in being principled in the midst of a war, but I believe that it's more dangerous not to be." "What do you mean?" He seemed to be searching for the words. "I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?

Was it possible that one sin could stain your soul forever? Or could one do enough good that a mistake of such magnitude could eventually be erased?

But we aren't defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?

Could they all be that evil? Or had they discovered a switch within themselves that allowed them to turn off their civility? Did they go home to their wives at night and simply flip the switches back on, become human once more?

refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

Please. I learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It's as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find

She had hunted animals. She had been hunted by animals. But the thought of humans hunting humans—it was difficult for her to understand, and it made her feel ill.

It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that divides us.

Maybe the lie wasn't as wrong if it wasn't uttered aloud.

But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.

moral calculus isn't reducible to actual calculus

Starting in the 1970s, the Friedman Doctrine and its extrapolations freed and encouraged businesspeople and the rich to go ahead and conform to the left-wing caricatures of them, to be rapacious and amoral without shame.

He was saving innocents and serving truth. And in the final judgement, what is more important? The burdens we bear -- or the way we bear them?

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!