Comparative Morality Quotes

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.