Quotes About Morality

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Indeed, if the good life entails nothing more than the joyless performance of good deeds, then it is not a life that is lived but merely one that is ploddingly enacted. How can we urge good character upon individuals and devise strategies for encouraging character if there is not an experiential payoff?

Clusters of items in the scale point to the following tendencies associated with social responsibility: greater concern for social and moral issues; disapproval of privilege and favor; emphasis on duties and self-discipline; greater conventionality; less rebelliousness; greater sense of trust and confidence in the world; greater poise, assurance, and personal security.

Being able to conceive moral contexts from multiple sides and being able to more deeply understand each person involved are major achievements in moral development.

Bravery raises the moral and social conscience of a society.

Higher stage [regarding moral reasoning] parents do not use love withdrawal as a parenting technique and prefer discussion-based parenting (e.g., induction). Higher stage parents are less likely to endorse "conventional" values (e.g., obedience, manners, respect for rules and law) and are more likely to endorse values that promote autonomy and commitment to and respect for others.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

I doubt that the men would lift a finger to save him from the hanging he so justly deserves.

But the business elite could not make even that claim. For them, cooperation in years of genocide became simply a matter of doing business.

Do what is right and be prepared to pay the price.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Why was the Law given? This is widely misunderstood. The first reason is to provide a standard of righteousness. How do you know right from wrong? By looking at God's standard, not relativism—God makes the rules, which were given to expose and identify sin.

We're all the heroes of our own tales. Even villains.

It can be a sin to tell an untimely truth.

Faithfulness at times, could mean NEVER CAUGHT CHEATING, not NEVER CHEATED.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

The people's good is the highest law.