Quotes About Morality

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!

why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.

The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.

was not kind to people who place principles before practicality.

When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. How

Ensi tote nuit se degenglent Cil qui de mal dire s'estrenglent, Mes tex dit sovant mal d'autrui Qui est molt pires de celui Que il blasme et que il despit.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Good people don't rush in to do evil where angels fear to tread; instead, they start by straying only a small way away from their moral center, and each successive step down is hardly different, barely noticeable, until it is too late and their behavior is shocking and may even be…awful.

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.

How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?

I know the answer to the question now, by the way: why bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. It came from my inner editor, the part of me that forces the wordy writer in me to dump ninety percent of all modifiers: Ask both questions again, minus the adjectives. "Why do things happen to people?" Just because.

Does anyone in this room have it?" "No, Chris, no one here has it." "How do you know?" "Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain." I didn't have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about God....

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.

It wasn't a very Christian thing to do, that's all.

As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.

regard as nothing place and office, when either is to be attained or held at the sacrifice of honor.

Like I said, some guys have a code they live by, some guys don't. John Ceepack? He has a code. Me? I'm working on it.

In truth, Riley's crew didn't make trouble. They were fixers. The school's go-to team of Robin Hoods. They only tried to right wrongs, protect innocent kids from bullies, look out for abused animals, and, basically, use their talents to do all the good they could.

W.W.C.D? What would Ceepak do?

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.