Quotes About Morality

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

I would rather be ruled by a just Turk than by an unjust Christian.

If every man had faith, we would need no more laws, but every one would of himself at all times do good works, as his confidence in God teaches him.

Der freie Wille sei zu nichts fähig außer zum Sündigen.

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

libre albedrío" no es más que un esclavo del pecado, de la muerte y de Satanás. Tal "libertad" no es ninguna libertad.

For I shall never advise a heathen or a Turk, let alone a Christian, to attack another or begin war.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

Hence it is great wisdom to know that we are nothing but sin, so that we do not think of sin as lightly as do the pope's theologians, who define sin as "anything said, done, or thought against the Law of God." Define sin, rather, on the basis of this psalm, as all that is born of father and mother, before a man is old enough to say, do, or think anything.

True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";

So we are not sinners because we commit this or that sin, but we commit them because we are sinners first.

115. Learn, then, what a hypocrite is; namely, one who lays claim to the worship of God and to charity, and yet, at the same time, destroys the worship of God and slaughters his brother.

For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa.

For whatever is said against a righteous man is said indirectly against God, who is in the righteous.

RaÅ£iunea este cea mai mare târf? a Diavolului; din fire ÅŸi prin felul de a fi, este o târf? d?un?toare; este o prostituat?, târfa desemnat? a Diavolului; târf? mâncat? de râie ÅŸi lepr?, care ar trebui c?lcat? în picioare ÅŸi distrus?, ea ÅŸi înÅ£elepciunea ei… Ar merita s? fie aruncat? în cel mai murdar loc al casei, în toalet?.

We can never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?