1,889 Quotes About Morality

With regard to Senator Strom Thurmond's attack on my morality, I have no comment. By religious training and fundamental philosophy, I am disinclined to to put myself in the position of having to defend my own moral character. Questions in this area should properly be directed to those who have entrusted me with my present responsibilities.

After the recent canonization of Pope Saint Paul VI, would it not be appropriate to meditate upon the example of that prophetic pope? In publishing the encyclical Humanæ Vitæ, on the one hand, and Credo of the People of God on the other, Paul VI gave us the example of a prophetic government, contrary to currents and pressures.

¡Permanezcan fieles a la Tierra, hermanos, con el poder de su virtud! Se los ruego encarecidamente. ¡No permitan que alcen el vuelo, abandonando las cosas terrenas, y con sus alas se golpeen contra paredes eternas! ¡Ay!, en todo tiempo ha habido mucha virtud que volando se extravió. Conduzcan como yo, la virtud extraviada de vuelta a la Tierra, de vuelta al cuerpo y a la vida; para que dé a la Tierra su sentido, ¡un sentido de hombres para hombres!

In my view, there's no morality without empathy.

All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the Nineteenth Century.

If we have any hope of maintaining freedom of thought and freedom of person in the near and distant future, we have to remember what the founding fathers knew: That freedom of thought and freedom of person must be erected together. That truth and justice cannot exist one without the other. That when one is threatened, the other is harmed. That justice, and thus morality, requires the empirical pursuit.

There is literally no way to have an opinion, in public, in 2018 AD, and not be involved in the hierarchy of global evil.

At the name Dekker there occurred that curious moral stiffening, that gathering together of relaxed social awareness, which always happens in England when an upper middle-class person enters the company of a group of lower middle-class persons.

Everything that was created is good, says the holy writing; why not human beings only? Why should they be otherwise than they are? Strange! - This fills me with sorrow. To slaughter one's sensations and wishes on the altars of necessity or morality, one calls that virtue.