moral distinction Quotes

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

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

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

Vices are not crimes.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

We are taught to attack the forces of evil and not those doing evil. That is what we are trained in.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

Women of God can never be like women of the world.

The difference between us and the terrorists is that when we kill innocent civilians, we do so by accident. When they kill innocent civilians, they do it deliberately.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.