Quotes About Morality

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

Character is the main object of education.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

Godliness is the root of cleanliness.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.