Quotes About Morality

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

All we have left, when all is said and done, is the content of our character and our most cherished relationships.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." JOHN WAYNE in his last film, The Shootist (1976)

We all need a solid belief system, a moral compass, to guide us when temptations crop up or peer pressure goes against what we know in our hearts is right.

For them, the Golden Rule was not something learned in Sunday school. The principle of "do unto others what you would have them do unto you" was nothing more and nothing less than a key to survival.

To the cowboy, true integrity means listening to that inner voice that tells you the difference between right and wrong, so that your actions line up with your beliefs. And isn't that as good a definition of integrity as you can find?

Mankind's moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped in one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul.

If the moral senses can conflict with one another and with what prudent action requires under particular circumstances, then living a good life requires striking a delicate balance among those senses and between them and prudent self-interest.

Half [of] us approve of other people's daughters having children out of wedlock, but hardly any of us approve of that for our daughters. [We] don't wish to be 'judgmental,' unless [we are judging] something we care about, [like] the well-being of the people we cherish

The fact that there is so much immoral behavior is not evidence of the weakness of the moral senses. The problem of wrong action arises because of the conflict among the several moral senses that exist, because of the struggle between morality and self-interest, and because of the corrosive effect of those forces that blunt the moral senses. We must often choose between duty and sympathy or between fairness and loyalty.

They were doing what they thought they had to do. Their intentions were as good as those of most political and religious purists. In the time of Julius Caesar, Brutus was known as the most moral man in Rome. Whenever we think of what he did and of what then became of him, we are reminded that unduly virtuous men can be as great a danger to themselves and their own causes as they are to their adversaries.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

When we decide what to do, we in effect proclaim our wish that our conduct be made into a "universal law." Therefore when a rational being decides to treat people in a certain way he decrees that in his judgement, this is the way people ought to be treated. Thus if we treat him the same way in return we are doing nothing more than treating him as he has decided people are to be treated.

culturas diferentes tienen códigos morales diferentes.

Si suponemos que nuestras ideas éticas serán compartidas por todos los pueblos y en todas las épocas, somos simplemente ingenuos.

No hay razón para pensar que si el mundo es redondo todos deben saberlo. De igual manera, no hay razón para pensar que si hay verdades morales todos deben conocerlas.

En particular, ningún tipo de actividad debía prohibirse a menos que, al realizar tal actividad, se esté dañando a otros.

It should never be about what side of the fence you are on, but, rather: what is right; fair; just; and above all, what is humane. If not, we are of no significance. We are nothing — certainly, we have nothing to offer the world of any great importance. By doing so — by doing what is right, fair, just, and humane — we ameliorate ourselves to becoming honorable people, which many of us have yet to attain.

Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.

Why is torture the worst interrogation method? Produces unreliable information Negative world opinion Subject to war crimes trials Used as a tool for compliance

You can be seduced to do this," Zimbardo added. "It's easy for people to delude themselves into thinking that they will be the ones who will do it the right way. Self-delusion is a powerful force for evil.

That's what I think more and more. There's nothing. No God, no Devil, nothing. No damnation, no redemption. There's just us and what we do. The things we achieve or the mess we make.

God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. - But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end? - She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain. Someone had to stop Them

morality is often the first casualty to progress.