Quotes About Morality

Es ist besser, wenn zehn Schuldige davonkommen, als dass ein Unschuldiger verfolgt wird.‹«

They'd had conversations about Sloane's job, defending clients to the best of his abilities no matter his personal feelings about their innocence or guilt.

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.' Proverbs 21:15.

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

In eternally liberal Seattle, it was better for a thief to commit a crime than to have his privacy invaded. "Is

Russians had interpreted capitalism to mean: "Steal what you can sell.

than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England

We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

Mithorden: I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

People always assume that the church's primary business is to teach morality. But it isn't; it's to proclaim grace, forgiveness, and the free party for all. It's to announce the reconciling relationship of God to everybody and to invite them simply to believe it and celebrate it.

As I observed earlier, the greatest evils are, with alarming regularity, done in the name of goodness. When we finally fry this planet in a nuclear holocaust, it will not have been done by a bunch of naughty little boys and girls; it will have been done by grave, respectable types who loved their high ideals too much to lay them down for the mere preservation of life on earth. And lesser evils follow the same rule.

People converted by fear-mongering are people converted from evil, not to the truth.

Always remember, you don't need bad people to get bad deeds done. All you need is somebody clever enough to convince good people that a nefarious policy is actually the greatest thing since the pop-up toaster. As I have frequently observed, most of the serious evils in the world have been done in the name of good.

Keep a spirited Christian horse and a useful ethical donkey. But don't try to breed a mule.