The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!

These minor, natural flaws did not explain why hers was but the deceptive beauty of the poisoned apple. It was not merely that she was shallow, a creature of simple malice: within her tiny skull...

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved...

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

Live up to your morals and values- whilst remaining aware of them, embrace your unique self, your individuality and be happy the way you are. Remembering to shift your focus to the goodness in your...

All that is gold does not glitter…

Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?” Not one person raised their hand.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

It’s all a matter of perception. What one person deems to be important may be just as equally unimportant to another.What one deems to be right may seem very wrong to someone else.Your moral compass...

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5...

While we are actually subjected to them, the ‘moods’ and ‘spirits’ of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must...

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

Radia hakuwa na makosa. Wengi huishi maisha yao bure. Yeye aliishi ya kwake kwa ajili ya watu. Hakuishi tu kama raia wa Tunisia. Aliishi kama raia wa uanadamu, maadili mema na uchapakazi. Watu walimsifu kwa...

All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme’s reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away,...

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

[…] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren’t the center of the universe. That others weren’t created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity...

[At the scene of a murder]The cats’ bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters, they killed for food and to train their young–well maybe sometimes for sport. But...

Brandon, until this very moment, the world and the people in it have always been dark and incomprehensible to me, and I’ve tried to clear my way with logic and superior intellect, and you’ve thrown...

Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent...

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Values aren’t buses,” she said shortly. “They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are. And I’d rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

Of one thing I am certain: No single people, tradition, religion, governmental form, ethical program, moral code, or civilization has had sufficient wisdom and goodness to set the pattern and govern he world in the...

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

First people lose their hair, then their vices, then their motivation. Then a toupee brings it all flowing back.

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.

Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero’s entertainments or Mengele’s experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a...

troublous storms that tossThe private state, and render life unsweet.”These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter...

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag.

How do they find out with the experiments?”…one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one...

Some People Are Wise, And Some Are Otherwise.

It seems it doesn’t pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped.

… if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of...

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

If the story-tellers could ha’ got decency and good morals from true stories, who’d have troubled to invent parables?

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic...