Quotes About Morality

You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. -Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

A civilian doing his work in the pursuit of national defense is just as much a soldier as a man in uniform, if not better; because patriotism is a moral quality which should be possessed by all.

You will go further, even if you may not acquire wealth, but you will be happier and well contented if you go via the straight path in life -- that is honesty and integrity.

Physical beauty will fade over time, but true beauty (virtue) is timeless.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, art for art's sake.

if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike remind us—they can indeed become real accomplices to evil through inaction.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Conscience is God present in man.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

Proctor is a moralist who says, "I've always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for medical study, but how he behaved was a proper basis for judging a person.

He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.

No hacen falta muchas razones para mostrar que la vida buena tiene más valor que la buena vida

Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.