Quotes About Morality

CAN WE SIMULTANEOUSLY LOVE our children but betray their generation and generations yet born?

We've become an immoral people demanding that Congress forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another. Deficits and runaway national debt are merely symptoms of that real problem.

Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by man or his institutions.

Locke said, as have others, that natural law is forever and enduring, and man-made law, which may vary from place to place and time to time, clearly is not. That which is just and virtuous is just and virtuous regardless of the passage of laws or time.

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS professor Dr. Walter Williams rightly describes the underlying pathology driving the nation to economic and financial ruin as a moral problem: "We've become an immoral people demanding that Congress forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another.

Locke said, as have others, that natural law is forever and enduring, and man-made law, which may vary from place to place and time to time, clearly is not.

Hitler, who held office legally but ruled unjustly, had become an oppressor. He therefore fell into the class of evildoers whom—as Aquinas and some Jesuit theologians argued—citizens could assassinate.33

Incluso fui vegetariano estricto durante un tiempo y, moralmente hablando, debería seguir siéndolo: es la única posición moral coherente con respecto a los animales. Sin embargo, aunque no soy tan malo como podría ser, tampoco soy tan bueno como debería.

Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Of course, with any new technology, the question in the back of everyone's mind is 'Can I have sex with it or use it to kill people?' -Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam

The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.

Gandhi ruled out direct coercion, such as trying to physically block someone. Hostile language was banned. Destroying property was forbidden. Not even secrecy was allowed.

We think, "Hey. The Bible is holy, so quoting it must make my choices correct." But someone else tried that tactic before. Yeah. His name was Satan.

C. S. Lewis wrote of temptation, "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also prison.

It would be surprising if you didn't hate me for what I've had to do today. A part of me hates myself. But I have orders. Winter is coming. My country is under siege. Without this food, my people will starve. So here in Italy, and in your eyes, I'm a criminal. Back home, I'll be an unsung hero. Good. Evil. It's all a question of perspective, is it not?

How do men think of such wickedness?" Anna asked as wax dripped down the candle and pooled about the holder. "Don't they fear for their souls?" Pino thought about Rauff and the Black Shirts wearing the hoods. "I don't think men like that care about their souls," Pino said, finishing the veal. "It's like they've already gone to evil, and going a little deeper won't matter.

But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that." "Even the Nazis?" Father Re hesitated, and then said, "I can't explain the Nazis. I don't think the Nazis can explain the Nazis.

What do we do, Father?" "We have faith, Pino. We have faith and continue to do what is right.

Seeing those things would make any man question his faith in mankind, the priest said. But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that.

Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death," the priest said. "Just a different choice of weapons.

Standartenführer Walter Rauff,

Character is you doing what is right when no one is looking and no one will know.