Quotes About Morality

Really?" Mister Sun said. "You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you're suddenly squeamish about a hammer.

But I am not a monster because I kill. Killing is easy. I am a monster because I accept the hard choices. (Frank Moses)

Cos a cop asking a guy for a discount on his crack, that's screwed up. Sign of the goddamn apocalypse is what it is.

What God calls evil can slowly begin to appear normal-even good.

The slightest departure from absolute obedience to God's law is sin.

A lei não decide se a coisa é errada, apenas se é legal.

A truly good man is not aware of his goodness and is therefore good. A foolish man tries to be good and is therefore not good.

a good man is but a bad man's teacher, and a bad man is but a good man's job.

Cultivated in the self, virtue is realized;

Who decides the rightness? That is the question that can never be answered satisfactorily. The law doesn't decide if it's wrong, only if it's legal.

cultivate a style of leadership that creates "a good store of virtue

Gather as much virtue as you possibly can.

Teach your kids, and any children you can, to sanctify life.

The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. Do the right thing.

the next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

Of two evils choose neither.

It is conceded that nothing contrary to reason can be true. But it is no less important to remember that nothing contrary to our moral nature can be true.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

And as John Adams told the Massachusetts militia in 1789, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." There

Without the restraints of some higher moral law, democracy instinctively works against natural marriage, traditional families, and any other institution that creates bonds and duties among citizens. It insists on the autonomous individual as its ideal. In

If the goal is uprooting millennia of traditional sexual morality, a need exists for the means and the ruthlessness to enforce the uprooting. The process doesn't need to be vulgar or brutish. But it does need to be thorough—and in an advanced media culture, that can be achieved by reshaping public perceptions. And so what we face now is what the Wall Street Journal described as "the new intolerance.

Parents often complain that America's education establishment abuses the classroom and misuses their children by preaching new moral orthodoxies on a whole range of issues like gender identity. The courts and legal profession then enforce those new orthodoxies. But it's the social sciences that actually help create them.