Quotes about Morality

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

Sire—I have received an order, under your majesty's seal, to put to death all the protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty, not to believe the letter a forgery; but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it.

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.