Quotes About Morality

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

In a book published at the time, a lace manufacturer admitted that he expected his workers to turn a few tricks on the side to make up for his not paying them a living wage. Soon lace, including crocheted lace, began to be seen as morally tainted—it's made by prostitutes! As Donna Kooler suggests in The Encyclopedia of Crochet, this may even explain how the word "hooker" came to have such wayward connotations.

Depravity feeds on depravity, and with no sense right and wrong, there is nothing for them to hold on to.

When you tell the children tales of the Baba Yaga on a cold winter's night, you might remember to mention that whether or not the witch is wicked often depends on who is telling the story.

who says wicked can't be good?

If you only behave because an invisible man in the sky is watching, then you don't own your own moral structure. Your moral framework is based outside yourself, separate from your reasoning.

We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part," Nucatola tells actors posing as organ traffickers. "I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness. All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse" (PROVERBS 8:7-8).

I will show partiality to no one, nor will I flatter any man; for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away" (JOB 32:21-22).

Waardoor ontspoorde het leven? Het begint met een stap. Begint het kwaad met een uitgesproken woord, of de adem voor het woord, of de gedachte voor de adem? Uit Voor altijd vandaag

You served," said Mama quietly. "You did what needed to be done. That's what it means, Comfort. You did the right thing even when, somewhere deep inside you, you didn't want to. Because you knew, somewhere even deeper, that it was the right thing to do. And...by doing the right thing, you saved yourself as well.

Sometimes it's best to do what feels safe, and sometimes it's better to do what you know is right, even though the cost may be high.

You have to wonder about people who worship a killer." Jack turned to Finley. "What the hell is this world coming to?

He was so certain it was the right thing to do. And we all know, don't we, gentlemen, of the deadliness of righteous men?

Robert C. Winthrop says: "Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins.

I wasn't vegetarian yet -- I was young and my conscience still under construction. (Kelly Johnson)

But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.

The fact evil exists speaks far more about man than about God. The Bible says God hates sin.

God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.

God is good, Rae. Men have free will and often do evil. God has freewill and constantly chooses to do good. That's the difference between us. God is good. Men have a bent toward evil that won't change unless we appeal to God to take us in hand and make us good again. And since only a small fraction of men ever think it worth laying down their will to ask for God's goodness instead, we end up with days like this.

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war.

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were. There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.