Quotes About Morality

We did it because it was the right thing to do.

doing and not doing, everyone's conscience finds its

Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

would escape to his own private planet, Ro, where an imaginary astronomer friend, Zi, had finally succeeded in building a machine to convert radiant sunlight into moral strength. Using it to waft peace throughout the universe, Zi

If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she's done something abominable, do you stop loving her?

I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.

The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over the anonymous stranger with his hand on the lever. Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life. Of course. Unlike Miss Winter, I had been ashamed to say so.

Remember, this person burns books. Does he really deserve to live?

He had given up trying to make her believe only what was true, she had been raised to the kind of religion that could admit no difference between what was true and what was good.

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." A good place to start, but I am afraid it is seldom that simple. The black-and-white is easy; the tough choices are gray.

In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins matter? Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long, ever-recurring battle.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain

So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts. . . . In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives is to make the case for morality at a time when many in the West have ceased to believe in an external moral order. The decline of belief in such an order is the most important political development of the past two centuries. Indeed, this decline has created the crisis of the West.

The socialist temptation is widely described by conservatives as the temptation to live off "free stuff." But this is not so—the temptation is actually more complex. It is the temptation to annihilate one's conscience by feeling justified in living off other people's work.

When possession is legitimized by force, where does the issue of theft arise? I'm

The maxim, every man for himself," he writes, "embraces the whole moral code of a free society." The harsh competition of capitalism, Fitzhugh says, benefits the few and the strong while crushing the many and the weak. As a consequence of freedom, "the rich are continually growing richer and the poor poorer.

The only difference is that Mengele didn't get away with it while Soros's explanation seems fully satisfactory to the political Left. In a profile of Soros in the New Yorker, Jane Mayer notes that Soros once described

The Genealogy of Morals

So the Democratic defense went like this: all men are created equal, blacks are subhuman, which is to say, not fully men, therefore, we are justified in enslaving them.

In Obama's America, the wealth creators are greedy, selfish, and materialistic while the wealth stealers are the most morally wonderful people in the country.

the morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.