Quotes About Morality

I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

I wondered when exactly I had exchanged my conscience for fearful obedience.

It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.

Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.

Anyone who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say so.

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.

It must be frustrating for decent parents to watch their children fall under the influence of radical educators, and sometimes make foolish decisions based on the predominant cultures in their schools. But no one should be surprised it happens—far too many educators are moral relativists who reject the notion of absolute right or wrong.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around the world that its power was constrained by neither law nor ethics, neither morality nor the Constitution: look what we can do and will do to those who impede our agenda.

in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure. Philosophy

In fact, both observing and breaking the rules involve moral choices, and both courses of action reveal something important about the individuals involved. Contrary to the accepted premise-that radical dissent demonstrates a personality disorder-the opposite could be true in the face of sever injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.

I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The question was asked: At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God? And the answer came: Where was man? For it was men alone who did this evil. Not God or religion or men acting in the name of God or religion. But simply men.

It was a good thing; and to admit that a good thing has derived from an evil thing is to bend the knee to evil to some extent.

Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies. Thus the Bible is making clear that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.

Do it because it is right not because you believe it is.

Don 't let the insignificant positive side of wrong trap you. Even wrong has a positive aspect. Choose right with a significant positive side.

Go with the truth, the right not what suits you. Because what suits you doesn't suit you if it's not right, the truth.

Right fights while wrong rests.

The challenge of humanity is the choice of what works perfectly for them over what works fairly for them.

Think as if you were punished for every deliberate wrong thought. You are.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.