Quotes About Morality

Perspective," said Duell. "That's your problem, 'tis. I'm a vampire. I love killin', I love fuckin', and I love watching the world go by. That's what I am. Question is, what the 'ell are you?

Either I'm right," he continued, "and he doesn't exist, or you're right, and he's the kind of God who watches children die. The kind of God who sits around while men like Herod build palaces and good people starve. Either way, he's not worth worshipping.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

Talvez todos mereçamos ir para o inferno, mas alguns merecem ir antes dos outros.

Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. -Abraham Lincoln, in a speech in the House of Representatives June 20th, 1848

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good." -- Abraham Lincoln, Original Quote

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. —Thomas Fuller

Those who steal should get extra punishment because the destroy other honest peoples trust between eachother.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

My rabbis taught me that it was wrong to say God caused the Holocaust; that he simply, in 1938, turned His head. He looked away.

He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

My concern is, How do we deal with evil without becoming it? If we aren't careful, our "justice" can be as bad as the crime itself. Yet

The death penalty did not flourish in America in spite of Christians but because of us. So

There are two ways to submit to authority, then. One is by obeying the good laws; the other is by openly suffering the consequences of disobeying the bad laws—that is

Our tools have "advanced," but we haven't advanced spiritually or morally. And so we, normal people, with the tools of destruction and wastefulness available daily for purchase, cannot handle the power.

It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.

It is written in the Didache, "There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways. The way of life, then, is this: first, you shall love God who made you; second, love your neighbor as yourself, and do not do to another what you would not want done to you.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

I cannot countenance destruction as a solution to the threat of destruction. In the long run such a victory would only bring about our own downfall. Jacen

Brave doesn't mean 'fearless,' you know. It means doing the right thing even if you're frightened.