Quotes about Morality

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

Character is how you treat people when they can do nothing for you.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?

We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.

Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I've noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born." Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb.

you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)

Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.

Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.

a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.