Quotes About Morality

Quien busque la supervivencia asesinando la humanidad de otro ser humano sólo consigue sobrevivir a la muerte de su propia humanidad.

t was not illiterate savages, but graduates of the finest educational systems of the West who designed the gas chambers used to burn millions of innocent men, women and children in Germany.

It is because the moral economy has little need of the market that market forces are up in arms against it.

La victimización rara vez humaniza a sus víctimas. Ser una víctima no garantiza autoridad moral.

A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.

Progress is a law—and theft too has its creation.

Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.

See, when something's the right thing to do, you don't do it for a reward.

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.

But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

It has not only detested beauty when produced at the price of justice; it has rejected the ritual when performed by the morally corrupted. Even religion itself, worship, was not considered to be an absolute. "Your prayers are an abomination," said Isaiah to the exploiters of the poor. Stay away from the synagogue, wrote the Gaon of Wilna to his household, if you cannot abstain from envy and gossiping about the dresses of your fellow attendants.

Ye shall kindle no fire—not even the fire of righteous indignation.

The laws of the Torah ask of each generation to fulfill what is within its power to fulfill. Some of its laws (for example Exodus 21:2 ff),14 do not represent ideals but compromises, realistic attempts to refine the moral condition of ancient man.

Right living is a way to right thinking.

That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .

one should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.

to the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.

Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.