Quotes about Ethics

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.

He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.' 

Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is his life meaningful? How about the elderly? If those who cannot think do not deserve to live, what about those who think the wrong way?

Consider this true-to-life scenario. Two women become pregnant on the same day. Six months later Woman A has a premature baby, small but healthy. Woman B is still pregnant. One week later both women decide they don't want their babies anymore. Why should Woman B be allowed to kill her baby and Woman A not be allowed to kill hers?

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

Yet there is nothing so vulgar left in our present cultural experience for which some professor cannot be found somewhere to justify it. Reason has died.

We make a mistake in thinking that something is right or wrong because culture deems it such. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, culture may approve or disapprove, but if there is no overarching umbrella of truth beyond culture, our times may wreak havoc in the name of culture. Slavery is an example of this. People did not flinch at the barbaric practices that were tolerated for so long. The abuse of marriage is no less a crime against humanity.

The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. That

When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right." There was a pin-drop silence.

Atheists seem to exercise their reductionistic tendencies selectively. If religion stands in the way of saving people, these people have infinite worth. But if the scientist stands in the way of preserving human life, the embryo is "nothing more than a dot.

Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.

You see, when the skeptic asks why God did not fashion us so that we would only choose good, he or she completely misses—drastically misses—what goodness is in God's eyes. Goodness is not an effect.