Quotes About Morality

I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened.

I knew that over and above the truth, there exists another duty which is much more important and much more human.

How ought we to love God, Father? he asked in a whisper. By loving men, my son And how ought we to love men? By trying to guide them along the right path And what is the right path? The one that rises - Nikos Kazanzakis, Christ Recrucified

I pity the village where no one is a saint, but I also pity the village where everyone is a saint!

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

What sort of madness comes over us to make us throw ourselves on another man, when he's done nothing to us, and bite him, cut his nose off, tear his ear out, run him through the guts - and all the time, calling on the Almighty to help us! Does it mean we want the Almighty to go and cut off noses and ears and rip people up?

It was being convulsed by a cry, a command to break our prison bars of morality, shame, and hope, and turn ourselves over to, lose ourselves in, become one with, the fearful, enticing Lover who lies in wait in the darkness and whom we call God. I felt that love, death, and God were one and the same. As the years went by, I became even more deeply aware of this terrifying Trinity that waits in ambush in the abyss of chaos - in the abyss and in our hearts.

you, pious milktoast: you don't murder, steal or commit adultery—because you are afraid. All your virtues are daughters of fear.

Pentru c? se face treaba pe jum?tate, îmi spunea el uneori, c?-ÅŸi spun oamenii oful pe jum?tate, c?-s p?c?toÅŸi sau cinstiÅ£i pe jum?tate, de-aia e lumea în starea jalnic? în care e acum. Mergi pân? la cap?t, loveÅŸte cu putere, nu-Å£i fie team?, ÅŸi vei birui. Bunului Dumnezeu îi e de-o sut? de ori mai scârb? de-o jum?tate de drac decât de-un drac ÅŸi jum?tate!

We feel free to criticize otherwise-honest police officers who protect crooked cops because of their Blue Code. But we have our White Code. It allows some doctors to get away with clinical shoddiness and bad medicine, and I say to hell with it.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.

if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves the standards they apply to others -- more stringent ones, in fact -- plainly cannot be taken seriously when they speak of appropriateness of response; or of right and wrong, good and evil

Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop.

Just war theory has been converted into a form of apologetics for whatever atrocities your favored state is carrying out.

And when you look, most of the time these authority structures have no justification: they have no moral justification, they have no justification in the interests of the person lower in the hierarchy, or in the interests of other people, or the environment, or the future, or the society, or anything else—they're just there in order to preserve certain structures of power and domination, and the people at the top. So

The rise of multinational corporations that know neither patriotism nor morality but only self-interest, has made accountability almost non-existent. At virtually every level, I discern a demand by business for docile government and unrestrained corporate individualism. Where industry once yearned for subservient unions, it now wants no unions at all.

If people cannot rise to the level of applying to ourselves the same standards we apply to others they have no right to talk about right and wrong.

Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3

Contrary to the eloquent pronouncements, it is not the case that "terrorism is terrorism. There's no two ways about it." There definitely are two ways about it: theirs versus ours. And not just when it comes to terrorism.