Quotes about Morality

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

Disgust at collective killing is of very recent date and should not be over-estimated. Today everyone takes part in public executions through the newspapers. Like everything else, however, it is more comfortable than it was. We sit peacefully at home and, out of a hundred details, can choose those to linger over which offer a special thrill. We only applaud when everything is over and there is no feeling of guilty connivance to spoil our pleasure.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.

You are the sum total of all that we have been," said the youngster who looked like my former self. "In a way we are the ones to execute John Dawson. Because you can't do it without us. Now, do you see?" I was beginning to understand. An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers.