Quotes About Morality

As we grow, the question we learn to ask moves from What is right or wrong? to What does Love require?

What the world calls a "worthy" is one who is defined as upright; but those who define him as good and upright are his clique (dang ?). When you hear his words, you consider him able; when you ask his partisans, they approve it. Hence, one is ennobled before one has any merits; one is punished before one has committed a crime.

if your life is already pretty good, there's not much reason to go around hurting others.

Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.

Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale

Would you prefer being baked to death under the sun or eaten alive by ants?

Right is right, even when all are against it, and wrong is wrong, even when all are for it.

Right and wrong depend on where you're standing. Stealing is wrong if you're the one being stolen from, but it's right if you're only alternative is to starve to death. Choice is an easier concept to handle, especially if no one else is affected by your choice. That doesn't often happen, but I still believe we're all entitled to live according to what we want rather then what others do.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

Life without sinning was like food without salt, pure but tasteless.

Never be afraid to be honest and stand up for what is right, Stella," he said pointedly. "Just remember to balance your courage with wisdom.

Then let us pray," Pastor Patton said firmly. Stella noticed a few townspeople slowing down as they passed by; none of the faces looked pleasant. She closed her eyes. "Dear Lord," said the pastor, we bow down before you as we stand up for dignity. Be with us and protect us both morning, noon and night. Amen.

Why are some people mean and some people nice?" "I don't rightly know...But my job is to teach all of you to be the best people you can be...

We don't need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

When we kill people, we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.

A man without enemies is a man without character.

The duplicitous world has set enough examples of how self-love doesn't portray selfishness rather selfishness portrays self-love.

The moral justification of a democratic mandate rest on the fulfillment of its promises and essence.

Give me a BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE Where you know what's what. The good guys get love, The bad guys get shot, The rich girl's cold, The poor girl's not.

Unfortunately, law and justice are not always synonymous" -H.W. Marsworth

But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running, anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn't want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought.

had shown a light on his little evil through the fog of his rationalizations.

The victor will not be asked later whether he had spoken the truth or not. —Adolf Hitler