1,889 Quotes About Morality

There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So much the better. The answers to moral dilemmas are not lying out there, waiting to be discovered. They reside, like the kingdom of God, within us -- the most difficult and inaccessible spot for any discovery or consensus.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

Just because something is normal, does not make it morally justified. Case in point: Antisemitism in Nazi Germany.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Are you a man with a conscience, or just a shark who will die when you stop moving forward?

Now, when I look into his eyes, I don't see death - but eternity. For the first time in my life, I am looking into someone's gaze and realizing that not only do I understand what's in his eyes...he understands what's in mine.