613 Quotes About Morals

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.

Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discussed for ages without scientific result. La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution:

There's no meaning in dying just Unrecognized as if you were never born!! It's no hell, a question on ur ever existence

When morals and values are absent, civilizations fall and collapse.

Do you see the grand error of their ways? They execute the Republic’s business as if it were the business of the Force! But has a political body ever succeeded in being the arbiter of what is right and just?

The issue for historians , then, is not whether we should make moral judgments, but how we can do so responsibly, by which I mean in such a way as to convince both the professionals and non-professionals who'll read our work that what we say makes sense.

Never compromise your morals just to feel like you belong. You will end up feeling like a stranger in your own life.

Moses spoke to bushes, the Buddha walked out on his wife and son, Abraham tried to murder one son, and abandoned his servant (Hagar) and other son to die in the desert, Mohammed slept with children, and Jesus Christ preached the Apocalypse. And these are supposedly our moral exemplars!

Each of us must cultivate a moral code, a higher standard that we love almost more than life itself. Each of us must sit down and ask: What's important to me? What would I rather die for than betray? How am I going to live and why?