Quotes About Morality

Evolution is amoral. Just because something is natural doesn't make it morally good ("the naturalistic fallacy"). Conversely, just because something is morally desirable doesn't make it true ("the moralistic fallacy").

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

Teilhard says we must be ready to "try everything." This hope requires a more adventurous moral life than what we find in classical religious patterns of piety, but Teilhard was looking for a morality rooted in hope—not only for humanity but for the whole universe. His attention to the cosmos and its future can cause confusion to theologians of "the eternal present" who have not yet fully awakened to the fact of an unfinished universe.

La sensación de estar cometiendo un pecado estaba bien para pasar un rato, pero al final resultaba agotador.

Never be proud of doing the right thing;

you should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing." To

But if Adams was certain of the necessity of the war, he found it difficult to reconcile himself to the role he should play in the conflict. Could he morally order other men to risk death on America's battlefields if he did not likewise face harm? Should he bear arms? Was he less than a man if he did not soldier? Adams struggled with these matters. For a sensitive man such as John Adams, it produced a terrible quandary.

A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.

The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

It's only cheating if you're caught doing it. Otherwise, it's good tactics.

Hij wist dat Halt op het punt stonden om te beginnen met wat hij 'creatieve administratie' noemde. Voor Arnaut was het gewoon vervalsing... En niet voor het eerst besloot hij dat naarmate hij langer optrok met twee Grijze Jagers, zijn morele standaard alleen maar verder naar beneden ging.

Jesper," Hal said, "find a food stall and get a pie or a sausage for Ulf. Buy it. Don't steal it," he added. Jesper looked offended, but said nothing. In fact, he had been planning to "liberate" a pie for Ulf and save some money. He didn't consider taking food to be stealing. Everybody did that, he thought. He just did it better than most.

Arnaut hield meer van de colleges van Heer Roderick: die waren zwart-wit, duidelijk, geen probleem wat goed of slecht was, neem je zwaard en hak erop los.

You can always win points," he said. "Winning people's respect is a lot more important. Now get back to your camp.

Het zou zijn verdiende loon zijn als iemand hem eens doodslaat of -steekt. Misschien zal hij dan eindelijk eens ophouden met onschuldige voorbijgangers geld af te persen. - Halt

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.