Quotes About Morality

he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.

Now Savi was playing her part in making sure no other innocents got hurt by psychotic ideologues who believed they had an absolute right to use force to achieve their goal.

We fight them in a thousand small ways each day, my young friend. That is how decent people will triumph in the end.

Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths

Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?

Why don't Edenists believe, then? Our culture proscribes nothing providing it doesn't harm the majority.

Often to do what's right you first have to do what's wrong.

You're frighteningly advanced, so it's comforting to know you put so much emphasis on ethics. They are so easy to abandon in times of war.

Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Do not become what you dispise.

Do not become what you despise.

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

One of the children excitedly jumped in with, "Yeah, the bad guy broke the window and …" Susie immediately reframed the narrative. "Not a bad guy. He just made a decision for his own benefit and didn't consider other people.

Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)

I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide or its reverse.

What is evil? What do you think it is? She didn't think for more than a second. She tossed her loose gray hair off the side of her face and said, "Impediment to Being.

Satan's extortion is powerless without the addiction to a good public name.

If the garden story comes after the seventh day when "everything is good," how does one account for an evil talking snake, the need for a wall around the garden, two ignorant naked people that don't know Good from evil, and this statement from God, "it's not good that the man [the adam] is alone"? How can "it" be "not good," if God has already declared everything good and finished?

If you drive God out the world then you create a howling wilderness." (Copyright: www.changinglives.au.com )

Only one reliable force stands in the way of the power of the strong over the weak. Only one reliable force forms the foundation of the concept of the rule of law. Only one reliable force restrains the hand of the man of power. And, in an age of power-worship, the Christian religion has become the principal obstacle to the desire of earthly utopians for absolute power.

In a Godless universe, what is the difference between doing unto others that we would wish them to do unto us, and merely appearing to do unto others that we would wish them to do unto us? The answer, alas, is that if there is no God who knows the secrets of our hearts, it is all too easy to appear to be good, and even to do formally good deeds, all of which are empty of real goodness.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, and more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?'...As Mark Twain is said to have remarked, 'It is not what I don't understand in the Bible that troubles me; it is what is perfectly clear that does.