Quotes about Morality
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
— H Richard Niebuhr
Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
— Hannah More
This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.
— Harold S. Kushner
If a human artist or employer made children suffer so that something immensely impressive or valuable could come to pass, we would put him in prison. Why then should we excuse God for causing such undeserved pain, no matter how wonderful the ultimate result may be?
— Harold S. Kushner
find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.
— Harold S. Kushner
Until I die, I will maintain my integrity.
— Harold S. Kushner
Tell the righteous it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him. (Isaiah 3:10—11)
— Harold S. Kushner
My list of the worst offenses against God would begin with hurting another person, cheating another person, shaming another person.
— Harold S. Kushner
Any God worth worshipping should prefer honest anger to hypocritical praise.
— Harold S. Kushner
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
— Harold S. Kushner