Quotes about Morality
And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?...Is evil a force that swims in human blood, struggling to find its way into the heart, or is it an external possibility wanting to be formed?
— Ted Dekker
Do you believe? I believe, he said softly. What do you believe? I believe that I will kill these two to save my wife and son. Belief. Something about belief mattered greatly.
— Ted Dekker
I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.
— Mike Huckabee
If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.
— Eli Yishai
When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?
— Francis J. Beckwith
PC advocates deny the existence of objective knowledge and morality, and thus see no point in employing moral suasion and logical argument to convince their fellow citizens that their viewpoint is correct. Their only means available is therefore using the instruments of political power, such as coercion, intimidation, marginalization, and name-calling. To put it philosophically: Ideas are not the power by which to change the world, but rather, the world's ideas are changed by power.
— Francis J. Beckwith
We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.
— Francis J. Beckwith
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
— Francis Schaeffer
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
— Frank Peretti
If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...
— Frank Peretti
When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.
— Frank Peretti
Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.
— Frank Peretti