#morals

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#before #came #class #conduct #course

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy. ↗

— Luke Scott

#community #considered #country #crazy #environment

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#degradation #found #fully #grand #history

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership. ↗

— Andy Stern

#focus #i #i think #leadership #lost

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#measures #minister #morals #nation #really

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. ↗

— Kenzaburō Ōe

#society #understanding #work #lifestyle

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#fantasy #morals #belief

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 make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#morals #nature #love

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 important than ethics, and love is more important than law. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#decisions #ethics #law #love #morals

God could learn a little about love and morality from us. If there’s anyone who needs redemption, it’s God. ↗

— Logan Kain

#god #morals #love