Quotes About Morality

The hero can never be a relativist.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

Since both knowledge and virtue require the concept of transcendence, they are really obnoxious to those committed to material standards…

I've become leery of religious advocacy for laws which only value a 'life' until it's born.

religion also teaches kindness, personal responsibility, and the grace not to judge people by the worst moments in their lives.

My pro-life colleagues love them till they're born but don't mind a righteous execution afterward.

What she was hearing, Caroline knew, was a lifetime of frustration and moral passion, based on a single, diamond-hard belief: that the death penalty was tainted by human failings too profound to cure, and that imposing it was an act of arrogance which diminished our humanity.

The notion that James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights so that racists and sociopaths and madmen could slaughter innocent men, women, and children with assault weapons or handguns is one of the most contemptible notions that an irresponsible minority has ever crammed down the throats of its potential victims.

We tend to assume that our hearts are pure, that we usually do the right thing, that we're better than average in almost every way you can imagine. Of course this is statistically impossible; it's just a comforting delusion. And

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?" I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.

In college I took a social psychology course, something I thought useful for a career in advertising. Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good. Apparently, Angel does.

I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig. ~Zeke

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

you can take the man out of the evil, but can you take the evil out of the man?

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not.

Make the ridiculous ideal of 'equality' their rallying cry. Let them get so caught up in their supposed moral superiority that they'd rather see all men grovel in poverty than rise in differing levels of prosperity.

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

I believe that the difference between Heaven and Hell is not so much the climate as the company.

Pär grinned. "What's so funny?" "You are, Bartolomeo." "Everything you've said is true," Nikos added, "but it's not that simple. Your choices, your decisions, were not necessarily the wrong choices. Sometimes, they were the right choices, the moral choices. They just didn't work out." "That's an understatement." "I'm