Quotes About Morality

Just remember this: power is neither good nor bad, but its user makes it so.

You're obsessed with the past," Jaypaw warned her. "You want to make sure everything turns out the way you think it should." "I just want to do what's right." "You can't always do the right thing. No matter how much you want to." "I know." Grief pulsed from his mentor, sharper and deeper than Jaypaw expected. "But I'll always try.

The puzzle of time, the mystery of creation, the problem of evil, the enigma of knowledge, the state of soul, the vexations of probability theory of the nature of God's grace, all reduced to a single question. What does it mean, in a world of God's creation, that man is free to choose between the paths of good and evil?

The only sin is the sin of being born.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

As things stand, our culture is far too critical of the individuals who eat junk foods and not critical enough about the corporations that profit from selling them. We spend a lot of time discussing unhealthy foods in terms of individual guilt and willpower and not enough looking at the morality of big food companies that have targeted some of the poorest consumers in the world with products that will make them sick, or the governments that allowed them to do so.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.

Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.

Many men carry their conscience like a drawn sword, cutting this way and that, in the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very soft and quiet, when it is turned within, thinking that a sword should not be allowed to cut its own scabbard.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

Righteousness is as hereditary as vice, and godly men transmit moral qualities to their children, and to their children's children.

Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.

Spirituality without morality is rootless.

There is but one resource for innocence among men or women, and that is an embargo upon all commerce of bad men.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.