Quotes About Morality

Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

You can commit injustice by doing nothing.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

My heart dropped directly into my stomach. And I cursed those fucking goatherds to hell, and myself for not executing them when every military codebook ever written had taught me otherwise. Not to mention my own raging instincts, which had told me to go with Axe and execute them. And let the liberals go to hell in a mule cart, and take with them all of their fucking know-nothing rules of etiquette in war and human rights and whatever other bullshit makes 'em happy.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Do not expect good from another's death.

Okay. Life isn't like the movies—you know, how the bad guys just want to be bad guys, villains. In real life, there aren't very many villains. Mostly, people believe they're doing the right thing. Even the ones who are doing bad things usually believe they're heroes, that whatever terrible thing they're doing is to prevent something worse. They're scared.

The difference between a thug and a soldier, the guy had said, was the moral courage of his cause.

intentions and results. Cooper's intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn't matter. Maybe the only

The truth was, everything in life came down to intentions and results. Cooper's intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn't matter. Maybe the only thing that counted was results.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

O tempora! O mores! [Oh the times! The customs!]

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.