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Quotes About Morality

We can mark a day on the calendar where America has fallen to a new low. This is now the condoning of taking matters, and the law, into you own hands and going to any lengths - even jungle savagery.
~ Unknown
Honesty is the best image.
~ Tom Wilson
Character is something you do when no one else is watching.
~ Unknown
Cheating happens in the blink of an eye and then the cheater says, "I never blinked!"
~ Unknown
Evil people can not see the evil in others because of their own evil.
~ Unknown
I always wonder what the world would be like if all the pro choice people where aborted?
~ Unknown
Whats right isn't always popular and whats popular isn't always right.
~ Unknown
The question also had an ominous spiritual dimension. To which God would they submit? There was the one proclaimed by the Baptists who said they could no longer serve two masters, and that freedom was a birthright. And then there was the one of the Church of England who commanded them to obey their masters and serve in thankfulness and humility.
~ Unknown
Ma si? jedno ?ycie i moralnym obowi?zkiem jest prze?y? je w zgodzie ze sob?.
~ Unknown
Büyük de?i?meyi Adem babam?z?n i?ledi?i o günaha yormakla yetinen Hristiyanlar? mutlu say?yorlar, k?skan?yorlar onlar?. Onlara göre babalardan çocuklara miras olarak günahlar? de?il, günahlar?n?n cezas? kal?yor. Oysa, as?l çocuklar?n günahlar?n?n cezas?n?, üreme kurallar?na uymayan ve çocuklar?n?n e?itimine önem vermeyen babalar?n çekmesi gerekir.
~ Tommaso Campanella
Nowadays, I don't believe in the Christian concept of a God who created people for the sole purpose of judging and punishing them. After all, if one of the commandments is "Thou shalt not kill," does that make God a hypocrite when he does things like flooding the world or destroying Sodom and Gomorrah?
~ Tommy Lee
Guns aren't evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.
~ Unknown
These church-goers," Gabriel felt obliged to fill the silence, "they talk about respect, and love and peace and all that jazz, and the minute they're out of that church, they're just as mean and selfish as they were before. It's as if going to church gives them the right to act like, well... like assholes.
~ Tomson Highway
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
Learning still, Old Wife, learning still." "But ain't learned to quit casting a voluptuous eye on the young mens, I notice," chirping her teeth. "When you gonna learn, you ole stick in the mud, that 'good' ain't got nothing to do with it? They packed me off to seminary thinking helping and healing and nosing around was about being good. It was only that I was Ã¢â'¬Â¦ available.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
~ Toni Morrison
As long as you remember that fighting evil doesn't necessarily make you good! Good and evil are each other's enemies, but they are often found close together.
~ Unknown
The world was slipping down into Hell, and everyone was helping it on its way. Everyone accepted a little bit of money, and a little bit of blame, and that way they could all walk around with a conscience that was just a little bit off-color. Just a little bit, but add all those bits together ...
~ Unknown
In our democracy no man should tell another man to break the law, nor should any man break the law to by-pass Parliament. But a person who is punished for breaking an unjust law may if he is sincere and his cause wins public sympathy, create a public demand to have that unjust law changed through Parliament. This is the first and most fundamental principle of British democracy. It has a deep moral significance. Our religious and political liberties rest upon it.
~ Tony Benn
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
~ Tony Benn
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
~ Tony Benn
I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people to be the same but because only through equality in our economic circumstances can our individuality develop properly.
~ Tony Blair
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
~ Tony Blair
And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
~ Tony Campolo