Morality Quotes

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of gover...

People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, ...

But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian ...

There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe...

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decid...

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over...

Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed ...

One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowled...

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring ...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi...

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alik...

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide...

It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, h...

When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, “Why all this prudery? Let us treat ...

It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion—as distinct from a transient fit of appetite—tha...

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian moral...

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.....

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and e...

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him...

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous indiv...

The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the ...

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propaga...

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who ne...

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do ...

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwh...

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come a...

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want peop...

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perha...

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, ...

We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the...

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to s...

He is a demon, Clarissa,” said Valentine, still in the same soft voice. “A demon with a man’s face. ...

There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They ar...

The time came to put Iris Duarte back on the plane.It was a morning flight which made it difficult. ...

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which...

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, en...

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi...

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for...

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...

Conventionality is not morality.

...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of g...

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.

The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility. There are times when we m...

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...

Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form.

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential ...

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is alm...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repud...

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has no...

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twen...

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal an...

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humo...

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There ar...

To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main pr...

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’....

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the out...

The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words m...

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that ...

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll s...

We did an evil thing, father.""What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each...

Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Gui...

This cultural, technological, and meritocratic environment hasn't made us a race of depraved barbari...

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem ...

How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet...

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence...

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Re...

...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to dis...

The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern...

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.W...

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is no...

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosop...

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

We could unleash all this technology at once. You can imagine what would happen then. But that's not...

What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? Wh...

I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who ser...

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.