Quotes About Morality

A true friend cares more about what is right than about pleasing you.

Anger, then, is the emotion that arises whenever we encounter what we perceive to be wrong. The emotional, physiological, and cognitive dimensions of anger leap to the front burner of our experience when we encounter injustice.

How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word. —Psalm 119:9

Let's always remember that most of the Ten Commandments boil down to one—to love our neighbors as ourselves. — Susan Lyttek

When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. —1 John 3:7

Love obeys God and reaches out in purity. — Patrick Mitchell —

America ... loves the successful sociopath and thinks it's normal to dream of becoming like him.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win.

Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Il ne m'a manqué que d'être aimé pour être bon!

Most humans subscribe to the policy of 'an eye for an eye, a life for a life'. Many of your religions are famous for this formula, which is well known throughout the UNIVERSE for its stupidity. Your christ and your buddah had a different vision, but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the christians and buddhists.

Why is it that postmodernists, who believe there are no moral absolutes, are so moralistic?

There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide. Who you chose to defend deserves to be defended simply because you chose them. You are the Fire Lord. What you chose, by definition, is right.

Ozai: What I'm saying is this -- There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide, who you choose to defend deserves to be defended simply because

I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl's morality story wasn't embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don't have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons.

He was a bad man, a bully and a thug, yet he was deeply religious in his way—I very much doubt that he would have made such a thing up. It was not his sort of lie, if you know what I mean.

They were all thoroughly bad people of the type to which I myself belong—that is to say, bad people who are pleased to think themselves good.

When I think back on it, it was as if I had the Claw already, more than a year before I got it. I can't describe how he looked when he rolled his eye up to see me. He touched my heart. I never revived an animal when I had the Claw, but then I never tried. When I was among them, I was usually wishing I could kill one, because I wanted something to eat. Now I'm no longer sure that killing animals to eat is something we are meant to do.

Until we reach the end of time, we don't know whether something's been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.

Nice people were not supposed to be able to recognize certain things, because they were supposed to be so untainted that they couldn't even think about them.