Quotes about Morality

One percent of the brotherhood has their hands on most of the bread. They own the country, their god is the free market, and most people are so unhorrified they won't even question the system. If it makes a profit, that's the definition of good. If it grows, you have to stand back and let it. The free market has exactly the same morality as a cancer cell.

Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, "Thou shalt not." Every faith has it. And for all but perhaps the Jainists of India, that command is absolutely conditional. We know it does not refer to mosquitoes.

Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which Tata Nzolo is home at the moment.

If no one has said outright that spying on Mr. Axelroot is a sin, then God probably couldn't technically hold it against me.

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

Can one who hates right govern?" Job 34:13

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.