Quotes about Morality
All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.
— Aldous Huxley
But I don't want comfort; I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
— Aldous Huxley
He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.
— Aldous Huxley
The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.
— Aldous Huxley
God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.
— Dorothy Day
The strong could make their own law, live their own lives; in fact, they were beyond good and evil. What was good and what was evil? It is easy enough to stifle conscience for a time. The satisfied flesh has its own law.
— Dorothy Day
The true atheist is the one who denies God's image in the "least of these.
— Dorothy Day
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
Character is what you are in the dark.
— DL Moody