Morality Quotes - Page 11

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.

Never let the sacrifice of others be for nothing by doing nothing.

Right isn't always legal.

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.

The challenge for people today-and it is not and easy one-is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

As a rule,
I believe people shouldn't follow rules;
rules should follow people.

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

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

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

Lástima por aquellos que prefieren dañar su integridad moral antes que quedarse solos.

The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.