Quotes About Morality

Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a "real" goodness.

the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will look again at this signal when we examine how

there is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the consequences.

After Jesus, the next group of people with the most innocent blood are the millions of unborn babies who were aborted with never even a chance at life, much less the chance to make a choice between good or evil. Leviticus 17:11 says that life is in the blood. And innocent shed blood cries out to God. What kind of cry do you think the blood of 44 million innocent babies aborted in the womb makes? What does that sound like to God?

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Mark had obviously contemplated it and rejected it. He was livid. "And why should I go to jail? Am I a criminal? Have I hurt anyone

Thoreau went to jail, not to Canada. That's civil disobedience. The other is self-interest, cloaked with morality.

Vietnam War was, to say the obvious, deeply controversial. One of its main dividing lines was whether a young American would step forward to serve or under what conditions he would find a way to stay here at home. It is beyond debate that many who opposed both the war and military service doubled down on their dissent by denigrating the value of serving and the morality of those who did the hardest fighting in the war.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

Humans will market anything to make a fucking profit. Religion, war, love, hate, sex, violence, pain, humor, emotion... all for fucking paper. We are pathetic beings.

As with anything, it comes down to the choices you make, and the honesty you display.

Everything has always been permitted, even when God was around. God has nothing to do with it.

He did bad things. Even though he thought he was the hero.

Even at the end he couldn't be anything but bad. There would be no rehabilitation for him, no redemption. Some people are just bad forever.

Indeed, the same millisecond of time can give birth to acts both poisonous and regenerative, both craven and noble, both trivial and momentous, as well as all gradations between.

Everything is permitted in a fight with the devil.

Arn at once agreed that this must be abominable in God's eyes, and he added that everything must be done to right this wrong.

Some persons like to give others lightning and storm for their own profit, while there are also people that like the sun see shining for every one, without thinking. Jan Jansen

Evil will Never win from Righteousness

To be fair and straight give us the power to be proud of ourselves in the mirror.

For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you've gone through a bagful." He rinsed the razor under the tap. "Worst of all, you become a slave to something that isn't real.

Father, you do not have to be a villain to act one in a play . . .