Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
All that is gold does not glitter...
There is but one rule of conduct for a man: to do the right thing. The cost may be dear in money, in friends, in influence, in labor, in a prolonged and painful sacrifice; but the cost not to do right...
Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the v...
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-po...
Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted....
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 wheelbarrow...
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more import...
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to a war against whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduc...
Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind?...
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 h...
Some People Are Wise, And Some Are Otherwise.
We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.
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