Quotes About Morality

to acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it." Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Ultimately, what we're looking for is someone who's enough of a morally flexible gasbag to get over with the money people, and then also charming enough on some politically irrelevant level to attract voters. (

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he's unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

More and more often, we all make silent calculations about who is entitled to what rights, and who is not.

Moral strengths cannot be governed. They must be earned.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

We do not what we ought;What we ought not, we do;And lean upon the thoughtThat chance will bring us through.

Thou hast no right to bliss.

Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man!

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says:??'First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness.

How good, and how strong, it is to take a principled position

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

The teachings in the Visuddhimagga begin with purification of virtue since the completion of the path to liberation rests squarely on the foundation stone of morality. This point cannot be over-emphasized.

In response the Sun asserted that Bennett's "only chance of dying an upright man will be that of hanging perpendicularly upon a rope.")

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others.

Christianity is the salt of the earth.