Quotes About Morality

Sin" is not just "doing things God has forbidden." It is, as we saw, the failure to be fully functioning, God-reflecting human beings.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

It is not worth harming an ant for the sake of this whole faithless world; why then should the intelligent offend God and men for the sake of it?

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

It was a white-collar crime." Illium gave her an odd look. "In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

He understands evil better than any other person I've ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.

Nothing is ever black and white, kitten," he reminded her, allowing his claws to slice out to touch her skin. "I can use my claws to protect, but I can use the same claws to rip out an enemy's throat.

Remember that there are those in this world who will cross every line and feel no guilt in doing so.

Rama looks on as Lakshmana disfigures Surpanakha but then, he is maryada purushottam. The ideal man allows other women to be disfigured and, constantly suspicious of her chastity, neglects his own wife!

you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. —Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations (1942)

It's pointless to defeat evil by destroying life.

I never want to be in a place where no one would come forward to say to a judge that they have known me as righteous. A life well-lived, in some respects, needs witnesses

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

Just say no to pillaging.

How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil?

It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; it's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

I read somewhere the other day that love is good as long as it's honest and unselfish and hurts no one.

When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?

Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see

Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.