1,889 Quotes About Morality

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure:two things most precious to the life of man.

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Morality is often very immoral.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.