Quotes About Morality

There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.

All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men remain silent and do nothing.

Matt, I saw a man with his face blown off and no mouth to scream with, and yet he screamed and could not die. I saw two brothers, and one was in blue and one was in grey, and I will not tell you which one took his saber and ran it through the other. Oh God, it was brother against brother, Cain and Abel all over again. And I was turned into Cain. What would God have to do with a nation where brothers can turn against each other with such brutality?

What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?

We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.

I think this is one of the situations where there is no right choice. We have to pray that we make the choice that is the least wrong.

For the opposite of sin is faith and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others and sometimes downright cruel!

No, that can't be so.' 'Believe me, it is. All kinds of things you told them like sunsets are good and killing small birds is bad.' 'Oh please, may I have said something less banal. Please!

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen." Jenny blinked. "I'm no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?

But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a unified trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation.

We can admire Curtis LeMay, respect him, and try to understand his choices. But Hansell is the one we give our hearts to. Why? Because I think he provides us with a model of what it means to be moral in our modern world. We live in an era when new tools and technologies and innovations emerge every day. But the only way those new technologies serve some higher purpose is if a dedicated band of believers insists that they be used to that purpose.

But what actually matters are the hundreds of small things that the powerful do—or don't do—to establish their legitimacy, like sleeping in the bed of an innocent man you just shot accidentally and scattering your belongings around his house.

We feel obliged to tell you that there are among us a certain number of Jews. But, we make no distinction between Jews and non-Jews. It is contrary to the Gospel teaching. If our comrades, whose only fault is to be born in another religion, received the order to let themselves be deported, or even examined, they would disobey the order received, and we would try to hide them as best we could. We have Jews. You're not getting them.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals

Another area of the moral and spiritual decline of Christendom is the abandonment of Christian mores. The movement away from Christian moral standards has not meant moving to an alternative humanistic system of moral standards as was anticipated, but moving into a moral vacuum, especially in the areas of eroticism.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.

If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that aregrounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don'tcheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.

We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!

When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.

Material poverty doesn't causemurder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does.