Quotes about Morality

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

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.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —

Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.

On the other hand, every virtue and every good deed turns worthless if pride creeps into it - which happens whenever in some fashion we glory in our goodness.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

The existence of free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!