Quotes About Morality

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!

When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well.

Don't try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.