Quotes About Morality

I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened; that we had started making better machines than people.

We can't take that step. It's illegal, and more importantly it's bad business.

What manner of man, he wondered, was he? A coward, piling profligacy on poltroonery? Or a hero, claiming exemption from moral law?

me. Glendin, there have been cowardly legal murders

Besides, most of the fellows that are ridin' long and sleepin' short, they have been drove out of society by the meanness of other men, and not because they wanted to go wrong.

perfect evil always wins something akin to admiration from more common people.

We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences.

Shame's a powerful weapon, but it depended on everyone else doing the right thing.

We were taught since birth to bear the burden of our grandfathers' shame. We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences

der Terror, scheint es, eignet sich beonders zur Vernichtung sittlicher Menschen.

When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.

Sometimes we do the wrong thing for the right reason. We've all been there.

You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighborly. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

Adán acusó a Eva. Caín mató a su hermano menor. Abraham mintió con respecto a Sara. Rebeca favoreció a Jacob. Jacob trampeó a Esaú y enseguida dio origen a una manga de rufianes. El libro de Génesis está lleno de desastres familiares.

It is not that we can't do good. We do. It's just that we can't keep from doing bad. In theological terms, we are "totally depraved." Though made in God's image, we have fallen. We're corrupt at the core. The very center of our being is selfish and perverse. David said, "I was born a sinner—yes, from the moment my mother conceived me" (Ps. 51:5 NLT).

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."1 Our deeds are ugly. Our actions are harsh. We don't do what we want to do, we don't like what we do, and what's worse—yes, there is something worse—we can't change.

You will never go wrong doing what is right.

consequence free.

Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself."1

His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.

Adultery, perhaps only a mistake during good times, became a crime when the village needed food.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.