Quotes About Morality

I think you can only make statements like 'She was pathological' if you are absolutely sure of your own sanity, which I consider a morally unacceptable position.

Something's happening to this country. We're going to go immoral. And television is doing it.

Dad said I'd go to hell.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

just because you know right from wrong, it doesn't mean you stay away from the wrong part.

I work hard, he says, I treat people like I want to be treated. God sees this, God knows.

The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.

It is just that there be law, but law is not justice

Infinite responsibility, therefore, no rest allowed for any form of good conscience.

en la guerra, el fin justifica los medios. Aquel

Las batallas son algo horrible, Manuela. Tomar las vidas de otros seres humanos no es motivo de jactancia." Todas

King, Gandhi, and Kepler become great because they make choices full of moral courage.

Always remember, John, that you and I live on a minor planet attached to a minor star, at the far edge of a minor galaxy. We live here briefly, and when we're gone, we're forgotten. And one day the galaxies will be gone, too. The only morality that makes sense is to do something useful with the brief time we're allotted.

Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

A man charged with a crime has a right to a lawyer, and when the community is most strongly against him, his right is morally greatest.

Because I am for them, Commander, because their ancestors stood up to that Nazi, Bligh, just like I would be for one little Jew, terrified and hungry, crossing the Pyrenees to get away to freedom from the Gestapo. One little Jew. You wouldn't have him in your house. He stinks, he has lice. But, you know what, Commander? I am for him, every time." And he would punch me in the shoulder and lug his M-1 up onto the ridge, night after night.

From that moment on I have never handled a gun. I have found even the shooting of a rattlesnake abhorrent, and I recommend to all my descendants that they keep away from firearms, for I have found that they do far more damage to good men than to evil.

He no longer acts from self, but does what is right— what is universally and eternally right.

THE MAN OF TRUTH never departs from the divine principles which he has espoused. He may be threatened with sickness, poverty, pain, loss of friends and position, yea, even with immediate death, yet he does not desert the principles which he knows to be eternally true. To him, there is one thing more grievous, more to be feared and shunned than all the above evils put together, and that is—the desertion of principle.

The measure of a man's truth is the measure of his love, and Truth is far removed from him whose life is not governed by Love.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.

The righteous man does not need your sympathy, but the unrighteous; he who, by his wrong-doing, is laying up for himself long periods of suffering and woe is in need of it.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so;

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms