Quotes About Morality

general amorality of the weapons business in their disdain for any kind of control over the arms trade, their dislike of attempts to promote peace, and their willingness to use bribes.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

unity. Evangelicals, by definition, don't care about unity nearly as much as they care about truth. When you say We may differ on some issues of morality and theology, but the important thing is that we stay together in one united Church you pre-suppose that the liberals are right and the evangelicals are wrong. Which, when you think about it, isn't very liberal at all.

No one has ever suggested legal protections for ugly people to make up for the misaligned features that will compromise their personal and professional lives. For people disabled by inherent moral perplexity, we offer not support but imprisonment.

Rather darkness than the illumination of the unclean.

God hates injustice and idolatry because they are the same thing:

We cannot repay evil for evil. Evil can only be overcome with good.

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

It was so hard to live the right kind of life, even if you knew what it was.

Americans are under no moral obligation to grant amnesty to people who have broken our laws. "The moral thing to do" is usually defined as "following the law." The fact that Democrats want 30 million new voters is not a good enough reason to ignore the law and screw over American workers, as well as legal immigrants already here.

in some states it was illegal to sell contraceptives to those who were unmarried.

According to the prevailing double standard, the young man who was equally responsible for the pregnancy was not condemned for his actions. It was her fault, not their fault, that she got pregnant. This was in that period of time when there wasn't much worse that a girl could do. They almost treated you like you had committed murder or something. —

You are going to love some of your characters, because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason. But no matter what, you are probably going to have to let bad things happen to some of the characters you love or you won't have much of a story. Bad things happen to good characters, because our actions have consequences, and we do not all behave perfectly all the time.

Don't do it, I said. Please? I mean, I understand that you want revenge, but two wrongs don't make a right. I didn't mean to sound like a teacher; the words just popped out.

A total prohibition against lying is also ethically incoherent in anyone but a true pacifist.

I am arguing that science can, in principle, help us understand what we would do and should want - and, therefore, what other people should do and should want in order to live the best lives possible. My claim is that there are right and wrong answers to moral questions, just as there are right and wrong answers to questions of physics, and such answers may on day fall within reach of the maturing sciences of mind.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis."16

Unless one commits to telling the truth in situations like this, however, one finds that the edges creep inward, and exceptions to the principle of honesty begin to multiply.

If lying seems the only option, given your fear or physical limitations, it clearly shifts the burden of combating evil onto others.

which is more moral: helping people purely out of concern for their suffering, or helping them because you think the creator of the universe will reward you for it? Mother

Communications like these can still be awkward, but a wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can generally be avoided by following a single precept: Do not lie.