Quotes About Morality

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

Every act has a consequence. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

Every act has a consequence, Ellie. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

For evil to survive, all that is necessary is for good people to stand by and do nothing.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black

Good things happen to good people.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black Beauty

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

There's nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

There's nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

Evil is the absence of God. This means that in the space between Man and God, evil exists. And this space is necessary because God had to give us a choice. He had to give us space to choose to love and obey Him.

When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Character is most determined by integrity and courage.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That's the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The war between the ideal and the real, between what's right and what's convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American.

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.