M. Russell Ballard Quotes

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

I'll never go against my morals.

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the same. But we got different aspects of things. Certain things are what they call common sense. Allah made it like that meaning there's only one mind, be we all occupy it. Some of us dig into it a little deeper. Some of us are lazy on it. There's only one right and one wrong.