Quotes About Morality

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. It would be needless to point this out if the unscrupulous were not always saying the opposite. It's so small a thing, the life of man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task. I wish to love, and I cannot. I wish not to love, and I cannot.

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have — and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.

There are only two things that are worthwhile: good music and a clear conscience.

t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.

B?h není n?jaký kriminálník, který podvádí v kartách. Chce, abychom se jeho zákony ?ídili svobodn?, z vlastní v?le. Ani B?h nedokáže nakreslit kulatý ?tverec. B?h je osam?lý - chce, aby si lidé poslušnost sami zvolili, a ne aby k ní byli p?inuceni strachem.

If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one. But, whereas animals don't have a rational code of ethics, I like to think I do. Which is where I am partisan. Moral partisanship is the reason for my "anger." And if I don't protest what needed to be protested, I might just as well be an animal.

Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us," Victoria, the smart one, said. "The good is oft interred with their bones.

Sometimes, Gerald, people break the law so clearly you can hear it crack like a tree branch snapped in two. But other times, like a baker twisting a roll of dough into a pretzel, you only bend the law. You don't tear it. You don't break it. You end up with something better than the ingredients you started with. And the final result is beautiful to behold.

In the end, we march along a path drawn by our own moral compass. The sum total of our life experiences guides us in a way our conscious minds could never decipher. We make choices without realizing why and trigger events we never foresee. And always we rationalize who we are and why we act the way we do.

There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy." —Ambrose Bierce

A good lawyer is part con man, part priest," I said. "No idea what you're talking about." "The con man promises riches if you hire him. The priest threatens hell if you don't.

The Doctor: I just don't like nastiness, and people getting away with it. Churchwell: That sounds a rather, if you forgive me, innocent view. The Doctor: That's as may be, but I'm sticking to it.

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

when u have no enemies ,you are characterless.

Concerning feelings, the most important point to remember is that everyone has them, and we should never be ashamed nor apologize for feeling the way we do. Feelings have no moral value.

If man is the product of an evolutionary process, then man is not morally accountable to God; if, however, God directly created man, then man is accountable to God and was also created that he might walk in holiness for fellowship with God.

Don't Expect What Goes Around to Come Around. Total jerks and evil people often get all the good breaks. Being nice guarantees nothing. Good things happen to bad people. Sometimes, things just don't "balance out" or "work out for the best.

Some people believe they have moral choices other than to love their partners no matter what; others believe that they deserve love, no matter how they behave. I say that both are wrong.

But I revere women and I think it unsportsmanlike to kill children…