Quotes About Morality

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

History is the study of the world's crime

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.