Quotes About Morality

I have known kings and criminals. I prefer criminals. They cheat, steal and betray, but at least you don't have to worship them while they do it.

Luther describes how backbiters are like hyenas or dogs who dig up stinking human corpses, pullulating with decay and full of worms, and bite into them—"Ugh, what a dreadful monster the backbiter is!

When Judas Schariot hanged himself, so that his guts ripped, and as happens to those who are hanged, his bladder burst, then the Jews had their golden cans and silver bowls ready, to catch the Judas piss (as one calls it) with the other relics, and afterwards together they ate the shit and drank, from which they got such sharp sight that they are able to see such complex glosses in Scripture."38

Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.

Every time you compromise, something inside your spirit dies a little

Evil is always with us. The balance is all.

They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.

Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.

Often he says that practicing Buddhism is unnecessary. Everyone can find the keys to a purposeful and moral life within their own culture and religious framework.

His message was that educators must find a way to teach compassion and moral values apart from a religious context.

SECRET #32 You don't need a thanks to know you've done the right thing.

the heartless practice of exposing unpromising infants

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein

People though are rarely all good or all evil but often a mixture of both and we all make mistakes.

Many years after the war, an American journalist asked Jeannie Rousseau, one of Marie-Madeleine's operatives, why she had risked her life to join Alliance. "I don't understand the question," replied Rousseau, who was responsible for one of the greatest Allied intelligence coups of the war. "It was a moral obligation to do what you are capable of doing. It was a must. How could you not do it?

In modern war … even those belligerents who are hampered by moral scruples must neglect no weapon that may be of service.

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

She blamed moral vices that weakened the whole society and worried that Americans were heading in the same direction.... Thought that so much land was owned by so few people and that so many ordinary people could never hope to own their land seemed to her the most damning characteristic of the Old World. ... I do not regret that I made this excursion since it has only more attached me to America.

America will not wear chains while her daughters are virtuous, but corrupt their morals by a general depravity, believe me sir a state or nation is undone. Was not Adam safe while Eve was innocent?

As Ravi Zacharias said, "Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.

Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

Everything is permissible'—but not everything is beneficial" (1 Corinthians 10:23).

As soon as sin was their choice, the cover of darkness was their preference.

Everything is permissible'—but not everything is beneficial" (1 Corinthians 10:23).