moral assessment Quotes

Do not judge a politician until the coffin closes.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

There are certainly people who have committed horrific, evil acts in the history of humanity. I don't think Aaron Burr's one of them.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

How can you judge a man until you come face to face?

Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

God judges what we give by what we keep.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

I'm in the business of value judgments .

It's a good time to say "Oh" and take stock and say, "Gee, how was I ethically this year?" That's the problem with faith, Joe. What it does is it kind of screws up your priorities. Your priorities shouldn't be saving your own ass, which is the focus of Christianity. The focus should be, I'm a good person, and I do that just for the sake of being good. Like the Christmas song says, "Be good for goodness' sake."

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.