Quotes About Morality

no one in their right mind would ever rob graves in broad daylight.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

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in the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts--but a great one acts.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back.

Only the actions of the justSmell sweet and blossom in their dust.

Every degree of power involves a corresponding degree of freedo from good and evil.

In his hand, Marc still had the Glock semi-automatic. Both of them knew what should happen next. The right choice, the expedient choice, was to put a bullet in this man's head and keep running. Marc kept running

When he was unexpectedly elevated to the executive director's position in 1942, Tobin quickly instilled at the Port Authority a disciplined, hierarchical, but deeply communitarian ethos designed to serve not power but a higher moral purpose.

Church and state knew no separation in the Jersey City of my youth. Together they presided over a strict private morality and a thriving public pilferage.

Doubtless priest as well as Levite salved his conscience with ample excuse for his inhumane conduct; he may have been in a hurry, or was fearful, perhaps, that the robbers would return and make him also a victim of their outrage. Excuses are easy to find; they spring up as readily and plentifully as weeds by the wayside. When the Samaritan came along and saw the wretched state of the wounded man, he had no excuse for he wanted none. - ch. 26 of Jesus the Christ

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Should the moral logic that informs the condemnation of same-sex erotic activity in the "seven passages" apply categorically to all committed same-sex relationships today? The evidence suggests that there are no forms of moral logic underpinning these passages that clearly and unequivocally forbid all contemporary forms of committed same-sex intimate relationships.

So the question must be put in a more focused way: Is there anything inherent in the moral logic that shapes the Bible's discussion of one-flesh unions that not only assumes but also requires that such unions take place only between a male and a female?

In short, the religious, purity, procreative, and honor-shame contexts that form the underlying moral logic of the Levitical prohibitions, understandable and coherent as they may be in their own context, simply do not apply to contemporary committed Christian gay and lesbian relationships.