Quotes About Morality

Virtue keeps more people out of heaven than all their sins combined.

peccadillo. So far as my observation goes, men

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

Bill, the point is that right in the middle of this horror there's a creature called man who can see that it's horrible. So where do we come up with these notions like 'evil' and 'cruel' and 'unjust'? You can't say a line looks a little bit crooked unless you've got a notion of a line that's straight.

In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak?

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness," he brooded. "And perhaps even Satan—Satan, in spite of himself—somehow serves to work out the will of God." Merrin

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

one life, he had spared others anguish and deterred a descent into anarchy.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

The fact that the root of Fourth Generation war is a political, social, and moral phenomenon, the decline of the state, means there can be no purely military solution to Fourth Generation threats. Military force is incapable, by itself, of restoring legitimacy to a state.

At the most powerful level of war, the moral level, the key to victory is to convince the local people to identify with the state, or at least to acquiesce to it, rather than identifying with non-state entities.

This leads to the central dilemma of Fourth Generation war: what works for you on the physical (and sometimes mental) level often works against you at the moral level.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.