Quotes About Morality

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

I think integrity is underrated.

I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding true to the Hippocratic oath and being able to provide services to those that are in need is very strong moral reason to provide services for the underserved.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

I can understand why people don't like fox hunting, but I really can't see why anyone other than vegans can object to game shooting.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

When you sign onto something, you want the character to be redeemable and likeable, hopefully, and understandable.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

I did study religion at Northwestern, and it was a very interesting time for me because I think it was the beginning of my personal journey in this understanding of the purpose that religion serves in our culture and in our individual lives. It serves to ground us and be our moral compass.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.