Quotes About Morality

Conscience is the voice inside guiding your judgement so you will know the difference between right and wrong. Guilt is that terrible feeling you get when you do not listen to your conscience. So when you feel guilty, it doesnt mean that you are a good person. What will make you a good person is to recognize that guilt, know that you need to make things right and take action to fix what you have done.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

Just because you don't go to church Sunday morning doesn't mean you forfeit your right of having any help or guidance from God.

Love is pure, don't let it become tainted by greed, lust and envy.

Never lie to the girl of your life, for the hoe of the night.

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Just because you're single does not give you an excuse to be a hoe.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.

It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends

You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts.

the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.

I confess that I admired him, even though he was my enemy. It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?

You wouldn't know right from wrong." There was no trace of anger in his voice. "The only way a man knows right from wrong is when he makes a choice.

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.

Our society had been a kleptocracy of the highest order, the government doing its best to steal from the Americans, the average man doing his best to steal from the government, the worst of us doing our best to steal from each other.

I need not look in the mirror or at the faces of my fellow men to find a likeness to God. I need only look at their selves and inside my own to realize we would not be killers if God Himself was not one, too.

Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We're all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn't that what Original Sin is all about?

They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a secular justice where human beings are presumed innocent. You can't have both.

He winced. I had hit him where it hurt, in the solar plexus of his conscience, where everyone who was an idealist was vulnerable. Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. The question was one of commitment.

The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just.