Quotes about Morality

We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

So evil can't exist unless good exists. But good can't exist unless God exists. In other words, there can be no objective evil unless there is objective good, and there can be no objective good unless God exists. If evil is real—and we all know it is—then God exists.

If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.

If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.