Quotes About Morality

Bolshevism's core convictions about capitalism and class warfare were held to be so incontrovertible that any and all means up to lying and summary executions were seen as not just expedient but morally necessary.

Sergei Nechayev (1847–82), the son of a serf and the founder of the secret society the People's Retaliation, had observed in 1871, "Everything that allows the triumph of the revolution is moral, and everything that stands in its way is immoral.

Their rule is 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement." —Aristotle, from The Nicomachean Ethics

What kind of man breaks his vows, destroys lives, and violates the laws of God for false love and brief pleasures?

SOMEONE ONCE TRIED TO SUMMARIZE A PRINCIPLE IN Aristotle's epic work Poetics with these words: "Action is character." Now Aristotle was describing the elements of drama when he wrote his Poetics, so he didn't necessarily mean what I mean here. Still, his basic premise is true: we know what a person's character is by what he does.

In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle said, "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Personality and Character Ethics

Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Integrity is walk our talk

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. Sooner or later, you'll see this in every long-term relationship they have, whether it is with a business associate, a spouse, a friend, or a teenage child going through an identity crisis. It is character that communicates most eloquently.

Sigmund Freud said that the conscience is primarily a product of our early life and culture.

Many people with secondary greatness - that is, social recognition for their talents - lack primary greatness of goodness in their character

Principles control consequences; values control behavior.

The more our values are in harmony with principles, the better decisions we will make… and the more inner peace we will have.

What you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based… never compromise with honesty