Morality Is Doing What Is Right Quotes

#1. Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.
There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

Dee Williams

#4. Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that I could ignore the beating of my own heart long enough to stop the beating of another's.

Jessica Khoury

#7. Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.

Brian Tracy

#9. We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right.

Temple Grandin

#10. Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

Brad Warner

#11. The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies ... Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

Solomon Northup

#12. All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.

Gillian Flynn

#13. All decisions we've come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

John-Talmage Mathis

#14. If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

Rebecca Manley Pippert

#15. Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging.

Suzy Kassem

#16. Across the board ... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

Andy Stanley

#18. Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

Ashly Lorenzana

#19. It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Lyndon Johnson

#20. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#21. What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.

Roy T. Bennett

#22. The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#23. We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality

Sunday Adelaja

#24. She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#25. Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I'm not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

S.C. Stephens

#26. Fin," she whispered. "What do you need?" He covered her hand, right there in her lap, then let go quickly and dipped his head to try to meet her downcast eyes. He smelled so good--like intrigue and dubious morality. It sent a delicious shiver down her arms.

Lauren Christopher

#27. The entire stock of relationships which suited in war - militiae - was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace - domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#28. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

#29. Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#30. I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

George MacDonald Fraser

#31. There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

Sam Harris

#32. Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality ... an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.

Parker J. Palmer

#33. Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

Don McLean

#34. You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

Doug Graham

#35. Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#36. The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

Patrick Henry

#37. What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

Embeth Davidtz

#38. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#39. Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality and the simplistic notions of right and wrong upon which 'the law' was founded.

Robert Partridge

#40. America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

Fulton J. Sheen