Quotes About Morality

Once you start fighting in a war, of course, you are immediately complicit in a form of mass murder.

Qué había ocurrido con nuestra moral desde el 11 de septiembre? Temía saber la respuesta. Tras la primera y la segunda guerra mundial, nosotros —Occidente— plantamos un bosque de legislación para impedir

Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.

As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still have a generally positive view of the wealthy and, rightly or wrongly, believe they too can make it to Richistan someday.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may take something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn't the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn't justice, holding aloft her scales, from which she blows even the dust of prejudice, be as noble, as admirable as now? Is it not better to love justice and mercy than to love a name, and when you put a name above justice, above mercy, are you sure that you are benefiting your fellowmen?

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Suppose God should damn to everlasting fire a man so great and good, that he, looking from the abyss of hell, would forgive God,—how would a god feel then?

As long as men did nothing except to render their fellows wretched; as long as they only butchered and burnt the innocent and helpless, God maintained the strictest and most heartless neutrality. But when some honest man, some great and tender soul expressed a doubt as to the truth of the Scriptures, or prayed to the wrong God, or to the right one by the wrong name, then the real God leaped like a wounded tiger upon his victim, and from his quivering flesh tore his wretched soul.

It certainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right.

He bade the slave ships speed from coast to coast, Fanned by the wings of the Holy Ghost.

Religion has not civilized man - man has civilized religion. God improves as man advances.

That church teaches that infinite innocence was sacrificed for me! I do not want it! I do not wish to go to heaven unless I can settle by the books, and go there because I ought to go there. I have said, and I say again, I do not wish to be a charity angel. I have no ambition to become a winged pauper of the skies.

The real question is, can we prevent the ignorant, the poor, the vicious, from filling the world with their children?

In this connection we might ask how God can be moral or good unless he believes in some Being superior to himself?

What pleasure can it give God to see a man devoured by a cancer; to see the quivering flesh slowly eaten; to see the nerves throbbing with pain? Is this a festival for God?