Gregory David Roberts Quotes

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

For me, the movement has to be bigger than just a record. For me, a movement represents like taking over the world.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Ain't no right way to do the wrong thing.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable. Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job; we need to be good partners and good neighbors to one another. Routine, measurable, and collective actions both small and large will make an impact.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

Human rights takes history out of justice.