Quotes About Morality

Notre stoïcien a dix fois raison : Supprime le jugement, tu supprimes le mal

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

Nadamos en pleno utilitarismo teleológico: hay verdades que son indeseables porque no son rentables, y hay mentiras que son necesarias.

There was never a creature more fortified against moral prejudices! My inducement for getting into the service of jealous husbands is to lend myself to the enjoyments of their pretty wives.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

Lester starts unbuttoning Angela's blouse. She seems disconnected from what's happened. Lester pulls her blouse open, exposing her breasts.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person.

I wasn't happy about it, but I respected their decision. Every now and then you had to break the rules to do the right thing, but a lot of times following the rules was the right thing.

Cruelty to prisoners the Nazis could abide. But not cruelty to animals.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

You simply cannot be a disciple without being a missionary—a sent one. For way too long discipleship has been limited to issues relating to our own personal morality and worked out in the context of the four walls of the church with its privatized religion.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says 'Judge not, lest ye be judged," he is forbidding condemnation, not discernment. There are times indeed when Christian charity demands that one speak forcibly.

there are ways to be dishonest that fall short of actual lying.

In between the two were the writers of the Apostolic Tradition, who forbade a catechumen or baptized believer from entering the legions, but permitted him, if he were attracted to the faith while in the legions, to stay there on one condition: "Let him not kill.

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

What makes a monster and what makes a man?

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES of temperaments. One who is easily angered and easily appeased—his virtue cancels his flaw. One whom it is difficult to anger and difficult to appease—his flaw cancels his virtue. One whom it is difficult to anger and is easily appeased, is pious. One who is easily angered and is difficult to appease, is wicked. —PIRKEI AVOT 5:11

TRUTH IS ONE of the very foundations upon which the world stands. As this is so, when you speak falsely it is as if you are nudging at the world's foundation. —RABBI MOSHE CHAIM LUZZATTO (1707–1746)