Quotes About Morality

You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.

Happy" is by no means synonymous with "good.

If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced—then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that. The good is whatever stops such things from happening.

So, I must take the complexity of the world, reduce it to a single point so that I can act, and take everyone else and their future selves into consideration while I am doing so.

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character. If you have a weak character, then adversity will mow you down when it appears, as it will, inevitably. You will hide, but there will be no place left to hide. And then you will find yourself doing terrible things.

Perhaps that is true prayer: the question, "What have I done wrong, and what can I do now to set things at least a little bit more right?

Consider then that the alleviation of unnecessary pain and suffering is a good. Make that an axiom: to the best of my ability I will act in a manner that leads to the alleviation of unnecessary pain and suffering.

the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

These are evil actions. No excuses are available for engaging in them. To dehumanize a fellow being, to reduce him or her to the status of a parasite, to torture and to slaughter with no consideration of individual innocence or guilt, to make an art form of pain—that is wrong.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

partir de ese punto, desarrollé mis principales conclusiones morales. Apunta hacia arriba. Presta atención. Arregla lo que puedas arreglar. No seas arrogante. Esfuérzate por ser humilde, porque el orgullo totalitario se manifiesta en la intolerancia, la opresión, la tortura y la muerte.

Additionally, the fact that religious ideas are capable of uniting vast numbers of people under a single moral umbrella (although such ideas can divide across sects, as well) also indicates something universal calling from within.

Možda spašavate nekoga zato što ste snažna, velikodušna, sre?ena osoba koja želi u?initi pravu stvar. Ali mogu?e je - i, možda, ?ak vjerojatnije - da samo želite usmjeriti pažnju na svoje neisrpive zalihe suosje?anja i dobre volje. (...) Ili možda zato što je lakše izgledati krjeposnim kada stojite pored nekoga posve neodgovorna. Prvo pretpostavite da ?inite najlakšu stvar, a ne onu najtežu.

Since the ideologue can place him or herself on the morally correct side of the equation without the genuine effort necessary to do so validly, it is much easier and more immediately gratifying to reduce the problem to something simple and accompany it with an evildoer, who can then be morally opposed.

Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.

But a villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero. A hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil.

Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place.

There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards heaven or tilt it towards hell.

Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

That is the moral of both narratives: follow the rules until you are capable of being a shining exemplar of what they represent, but break them when those very rules now constitute the most dire impediment to the embodiment of their central virtues.

Kada iznevjerite sami sebe, kada govorite neistine i živite laž, slabite svoj karakter. Ako imate slab karakter, nevolje ?e vas pomesti kada se pojave, a neizbježno je da se pojave. Skrivat ?ete se, ali ne?ete se više imati kamo skriti. A onda ?ete se zate?i kako radite užasne stvari.

It's *AS IF* there is a powerful figure in the sky, who sees all, and is judging you. Giving up something you value seems to make him happy--and you want to make him happy, because all hell breaks loose if you don't. So, practice sacrificing, and sharing, until you become expert at it, and things will go well for you.

You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.

Naive, harmless people usually guide their perceptions and actions with a few simple axioms: people are basically good; no one really wants to hurt anyone else; the threat (and, certainly, the use) of force, physical or otherwise, is wrong. These axioms collapse, or worse, in the presence of individuals who are genuinely malevolent