Quotes About Morality

The problem is;doing bad in the name of good.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Do right. Do your best.

I seemed to be the only one who noticed, the only one who was concerned that doing the right thing for the wrong reason doesn't make you a person of integrity.

hacer lo correcto conduce a la felicidad; lo erróneo, a la infelicidad. Esto es absolutamente independiente de quién seas, la edad que tengas y el lugar donde estés. Lo decreta el Camino.

sin is deceptively strong and pride has many faces. I

Evil people do tend to think they're the heroes of their own stories,

No longer do our beliefs point back to a divine law code or an essential, in-built sense of good and evil; they exist only and solely in the eye of the beholder.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?

Of what use are good words to an evil heart?

The Bible does not urge moral improvement as an end in itself, but moral improvement in relation to God, for God's sake, and with a view to the service of God.

W rzeczy samej, na obecnym etapie naszej wiedzy na ten temat, sny mog? by? jedynie oparami naszej wyobra?ni. Jak powiedzia? Bertrand Russell: "nie wierz?, ?e teraz ?ni?, ale nie mog? dowie??, ?e tak nie jest". Mora? z tego taki, ?e w naszych nocnych podró?ach jest wi?cej sensu, ni?by si? nam mog?o wydawa?.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on others, they sacrifice their moral advantage. Organized violence, at bottom, is just another form of oppression.

Scientific and religious beliefs are important to people; but they are (usually) neither foundational premises, backing one outcome in advance against all others, nor ex post facto rationalizations, disguising personal preferences in the language of impersonal authority. They are only tools for decision making, one of the pieces people try to bundle together with other pieces, like moral teachings and selfish interests and specific information, when they need to reach a decision.

If behaving as though we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.