Quotes About Morality

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

Paul Slovic, another moral philosopher, agrees. He says empathy is a poor tool for improving the lives of others, because the human mind is bad at thinking about, and empathizing with, millions or billions of individuals

And yet, in the words of Immanuel Kant: Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

It is not a lack of morality or any deep character flaw that creates addiction; it is almost always just a lot of pain and a lack of tolerance or compassion for this pain that get us stuck in the repetitive and habitual patterns of drinking, drugging, overeating, or whatever actions our addictions take. In some cases the underlying causes are not as clear, but the suffering that addiction creates is always obvious and undeniable.

Serving the truth comes down simply to living life from the place of positive intentions. It means doing the right thing even when everything and everyone in society is telling you to ignore, supress, or abandon the path of nonviolence, understanding and care.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

It's not about what makes you feel better or worse. If it's the right thing to do and you know it, you should do it.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics. Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.

Morality was viewed by the Egyptians not as the assertion of self against the world but rather as the individual search for harmony with the eternal order ... The Egyptian was free to seek out a place in a benevolent world order, but he was not to disrupt it by either nonconformity or self-abnegation.

What makes us miserable, what causes us to be in conflict with one another? It's our insistence on our particular view of things. Our view of what we deserve or want, our view of right and wrong, our view of self, of other, of life, of death. But views are just views. They're not ultimate truth.

Do not compare" is the mantra of moral blackmailers.

The right to sterilize was about government interference in the reproductive process; the right to abort is about barring government interference in it. But at bottom the moral stake is arguably the same: the sanctity of human life.

Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I've noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born." Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb.

you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)

Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.

a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.

the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.