Quotes About Morality

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

The source of morality must be moral.

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

Moral arguments beat economic arguments every time, because—whether we are liberal or conservative—we are all moral creatures who are encoded to value compassion and fairness.

If we want more unity and less contempt, however, we need to get out of our comfort zones, go where we are not welcome, and spend time talking and interacting with people with whom we disagree—not on lightweight stuff like sports and food, but on hard moral things.

Mandela had a conviction that only goodness could win in a moral struggle. He believed that even under unjust persecution, people should treat others with kindness and respect, that anything less was a failing of his own character.

The moral case against objectifying others is fairly straightforward. It starts to get more complicated when the objectifier and the one being objectified are the same person—in other words, with self-objectification, which scholars define as viewing oneself from a third-person perspective that does not consider one's full humanity.

We know in our hearts that the objectification of others is wrong and immoral. But it is easy to forget that we can do it to ourselves as well.

These are practical reasons to avoid them, but there's the moral reason, too: they're just plain wrong. We simply should not put up with insults, whether from the other side or our own. Indeed, I'll take it a step further. When someone on your side insults people on the other side, it is your responsibility to take it personally and stand up for those with whom you disagree.

This is a classic weaponization of values. It's not something that good or moral leaders should ever do.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

We are taking over a completely broken Brazil. We've never had such a major ethical, moral, and economic crisis, and we want to get out of this quagmire.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Power and money are not what truly matter, qualities of heart matter more.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.